Abstract: In one embodiment, a method controls access rights within a system. The method comprises: physically transporting a portable card by the first end-user from a networked processor-based system to multiple non-networked processor-based systems; processing respective access attempts from the first end-user by the multiple non-networked processor-based systems, wherein the access attempts occur when the first-end user is in physical proximity to the multiple non-networked processor-based systems; and in conjunction with processing of the respective access attempts by the multiple non-networked processor-based systems, reading the revocation data from the portable card of the first-end user by the multiple non-networked processor-based systems and locally storing the revocation data by the multiple non-networked processor-based systems, wherein upon storing the updated revocation data, the multiple non-networked processor-based systems become operable to deny access to a second end-user.

Abstract: In one embodiment, a method for operating a social network application, comprises: capturing an image or video using a wireless device by a user of the social network application; communicating the image or video from the wireless device of the user to a social network application server; storing the image or video by the social network application server; identifying a user account by the social network application server in response to communication of the image or video; and modifying data, by the social network application server, associated with the account of the user to automatically post the image or video to a web page of the user to make the image or video available for viewing by other users of the social network application.

Abstract: In one embodiment, access attempts within a system are logged. The system comprises at least one security server for managing access rights and at least one networked processor-based system that processes access attempts to provide or deny access and multiple non-networked processor-based systems that process access attempts to provide or deny access. The access attempts are made by employees of a common organization and the at least one security server maintains one or several databases that store data pertaining to the end-user employees of the common organization, networked and non-networked processor-based systems of the common organization, and access rights specific to the common organization. The access attempt logs are written to end-user cards and communicated to the central server through the at least one processor-based system.

Abstract: In one embodiment, access log information is written to portable cards of end-users of system that includes networked and non-networked processor based systems that control user access. In conjunction with processing of access attempts by non-networked processor-based systems, time stamps of accesses by each end-user for multiple accesses on multiple processor-based systems are analyzed against one or more access rules, the one or more rules defining one or more relative timing constraints or order constraints for accesses on multiple processor-based systems. Also, in conjunction with processing of the further access attempts by the non-networked processor-based systems, access decisions are controlled in response to determining whether the time stamps of respective end-users indicate that said respective end-users have violated the one or more access rules.