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US 9,792,747 B2Granted
Multifunctional access control device
AssigneeAllegion, Inc.
InventorsJoseph Wayne Baumgarte, Todd Eberwine, Frank Kasper
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Abstract
An access control device that at least assists in controlling the ingress/egress through an entryway. According to certain embodiments, the access control device is operably coupled to an entryway device so as to at least assist in controlling the ability to displace an entryway device from a closed position and/or from an open position. The access control device is structured for communication with a plurality of components of a security management system, and thus may be programmed by one or more modes, including, for example a manual program mode, an off-line managed mode, a wireless off-line management mode, a wireless real-time mode, and/or an off-line real-time mode.
Claims20
An access control device for controlling the displacement of an entryway device, the access control device comprising:
- a plurality of wireless transceivers;
- a memory for storing instructions, at least a portion of the instructions relating to the displacement of the entryway device;
- and a processing device coupled to the memory, wherein the processing device selects from at least the following programming modes for programming of the access control device:
- an off-line management mode, an online real-time mode, and an off-line real-time mode;
- wherein, in the off-line management mode, the access control device (i) is programmable by a gateway over a WI-Fl connection established between the access control device and the gateway based on programming data received by the gateway from a server over a wired Ethernet WAN/LAN connection established between the gateway and the server and (ii) wakes at least a portion of the access control device to download the programming data from the server via the gateway in response to receipt of a wake command from a mobile electronic device;
- wherein, in the online real-time mode, the access control device is programmable in real-time via the gateway over a wireless connection established between the access control device and the gateway;
- and wherein, in the off-line real-time mode, the access control device is programmable in real-time via a mobile electronic device over a wireless connection established between the mobile electronic device and the access control device based on programming data received by the mobile electronic device in real-time from the server.
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An electronic lock device, comprising:
- a lock mechanism, at least a portion of the lock mechanism being selectively displaceable between a locked position and an unlocked position;
- an input/output device structured to receive instructions from two or more external devices for execution by a processing device of the electronic lock device in at least the following programming modes:
- an off-line management mode, an online real-time mode, and an off-line real-time mode;
- wherein, in the off-line management mode, the electronic lock device is structured to be programmed via a router over a WI-FI connection established between the electronic lock device and the router based on programming data received by the router from a server over a wired Ethernet WAN/LAN connection established between the router and the server;
- wherein, in the online real-time mode, the electronic lock device is structured to be programmed in real-time via the router over a wireless connection established between the electronic lock device and the router;
- and wherein, in the off-line real-time mode, the electronic lock device is structured to be programmed in real-time via a mobile electronic device over a wireless connection established between the mobile electronic device and the electronic lock device based on programming data received by the mobile electronic device in real-time from the server.
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An access control device, comprising:
- a credential reading interface structured to read at least one type of credential;
- and
- an input/output device structured to receive instructions from two or more external devices for execution by a processing device of the access control device in a programming mode selected from at least the following programming modes:
- an off-line management mode, an online real-time mode, and an off-line real-time mode;
- wherein, in the off-line management mode, the access control device is programmable by a gateway over a WI-FI connection established between the access control device and the gateway based on programming data received by the gateway from a server over a wired Ethernet WAN/LAN connection established between the gateway and the server;
- wherein, in the online real-time mode, the access control device is programmable in real-time via the gateway over a wireless connection established between the access control device and the gateway;
- wherein, in the off-line real-time mode, the access control device is programmable in real-time via a mobile electronic device over a wireless connection established between the mobile electronic device and the access control device based on programming data received by the mobile electronic device in real-time from the server;
- and
- wherein the processing device selects a programming mode from at least the off-line management mode, the online real-time mode, and the off-line real-time mode in response to receipt of a command received from the server that indicates the programming mode to be selected.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.