Trusted vendor access
AssigneeUTC Fire & Security Corporation
InventorsAdam Kuenzi, Teri Lynne Briskey, James Young, Jonah J. Harkema, David Casey Fale
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Abstract
A system is provided and facilitates management of a device by a first entity and management of a third entity by a second entity, wherein by way of the system access rights permitting access otherwise prevented by the device are assignable by the first entity to the second entity, the access rights are able to be administrated by the second entity to the third entity, and the access is obtainable by the third entity using a combination of the access rights and personal identification information to affect the device.
Claims17
A system that facilitates management of a locking device by a first entity and management of a third entity by a second entity, the system comprising:
- a network;
- and
- a portal by which the first, second and third entities communicate with access to third entity performance tracking information, the portal being hosted by a server for distribution over the network, wherein by way of the system:
- access rights permitting access otherwise prevented by the locking device are assignable to and revocable from the second entity by the first entity based on a response of the second entity to the third entity performance tracking information,
- the access rights being administrated as an access token by the second entity to a portable device of the third entity via the portal,
- the portable device being configured to identify a type of the locking device and to search in a data packet list for a data packet corresponding to the type of the locking device, and
- the access is obtained by the third entity using data reflective of the access token and generated in accordance with the identified type of the locking device and personal identification information of the third entity to affect the locking device.
A system that facilitates management by a lock owner of a first locking device and second locking devices, which are accessible via the first locking device, one of the second locking devices preventing access to a secured resource, the system further facilitating management by a trusted vendor organization of a trusted vendor possessing a portable device and comprising:
- a network;
- and
- a portal by which the first, second and third entities communicate with access to trusted vendor performance tracking information, the portal being hosted by a server for distribution over the network, wherein by way of the system:
- access rights permitting access to the secured resource otherwise prevented by the first locking device and access rights permitting access to the secured resource otherwise prevented by the one of the second locking devices are each respectively assignable and revocable by the lock owner to and from the trusted vendor organization based on a response of the trusted vendor organization to the trusted vendor performance tracking information,
- the portable device being configured to identify a respective type of the first and second locking devices and to search in a data packet list for respective data packets corresponding to the respective type of the first and second locking devices,
- the access rights are each respectively administered as corresponding access tokens by the trusted vendor organization to the portable device via the portal and
- access to the secured resource is obtainable by the trusted vendor using the portable device to unlock the first locking device and the one of the second locking devices with a combination of data reflective of the access tokens and generated in accordance with the identified respective types of the first and second locking devices and personal identification information.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.