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US 9,806,689 B2Granted
Electronic lock, locking system, method of operating an electronic lock, computer program product
AssigneeNXP B.V.
InventorsPiotr Polak, Wilhelmus Hubertus Chretien Knubben, Hauke Meyn
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Abstract
According to an aspect of the invention, an electronic lock is conceived, being adapted to harvest energy from a radio frequency (RF) connection established between a mobile device and said electronic lock, further being adapted to use the harvested energy for processing an authorization token received via said RF connection from the mobile device, and further being adapted to use the harvested energy for controlling an unlocking switch in dependence on a result of said processing.
Claims15
An electronic lock,
- being adapted to harvest energy from a radio frequency, RF, connection established between a mobile device and said electronic lock,
- further being adapted to use the harvested energy for processing an authorization token received from the mobile device via said RF connection,
- and further being adapted to use the harvested energy for controlling an unlocking switch in dependence on a result of said processing,
- wherein the electronic lock comprises a secure element configured to decrypt the authorization token and to encrypt the decrypted authorization token before transmitting the encrypted authorization token for authorization.
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A method of operating an electronic lock,
- wherein said electronic lock harvests energy from a radio frequency, RF, connection established between a mobile device and said electronic lock,
- wherein the electronic lock uses the harvested energy for processing an authorization token received from the mobile device via said RF connection,
- wherein the electronic lock uses the harvested energy for controlling an unlocking switch in dependence on a result of said processing, and
- wherein the electronic lock decrypts the authorization token and encrypts the decrypted authorization token before transmitting the encrypted authorization token for authorization.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.