Patents by Inventor Todd J. Person

Todd J. Person has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 11837037
    Abstract: A universal secure mobile device entry upgrade for electronic locks adds a wireless unlocking functionality to an existing host lock assembly. An electronics unit having a processing unit, a wireless communication device, a lock input, and a lock output is installed between a host motor output and host motor of a host lock. The original unlocking functionality of the host lock is maintained by either repeating an unlock signal from the host motor output to the host motor using the processing unit, or through a two-position switch that passes a host unlock signal to the host motor by default, but switches to a second position that allows an unlock signal to be sent to the host motor when a wireless unlocking is signaled from a mobile unlocking device such as a smartphone or the like. An integrated security chip and real-time clock may be included to increase security.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2023
    Assignee: OpenKey, Inc.
    Inventors: Stephen Vincent Zsigray, III, Eric Daley, Christopher Shane Hickingbottom, Todd J. Person
  • Publication number: 20210134093
    Abstract: A universal secure mobile device entry upgrade for electronic locks adds a wireless unlocking functionality to an existing host lock assembly. An electronics unit having a processing unit, a wireless communication device, a lock input, and a lock output is installed between a host motor output and host motor of a host lock. The original unlocking functionality of the host lock is maintained by either repeating an unlock signal from the host motor output to the host motor using the processing unit, or through a two-position switch that passes a host unlock signal to the host motor by default, but switches to a second position that allows an unlock signal to be sent to the host motor when a wireless unlocking is signaled from a mobile unlocking device such as a smartphone or the like. An integrated security chip and real-time clock may be included to increase security.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 9, 2020
    Publication date: May 6, 2021
    Inventors: Stephen Vincent Zsigray, III, Eric Daley, Christopher Shane Hickingbottom, Todd J. Person
  • Publication number: 20210134092
    Abstract: A universal secure mobile device entry upgrade for electronic locks adds a wireless unlocking functionality to an existing host lock assembly. An electronics unit having a processing unit, a wireless communication device, a lock input, and a lock output is installed between a host motor output and host motor of a host lock. The original unlocking functionality of the host lock is maintained by either repeating an unlock signal from the host motor output to the host motor using the processing unit, or through a two-position switch that passes a host unlock signal to the host motor by default, but switches to a second position that allows an unlock signal to be sent to the host motor when a wireless unlocking is signaled from a mobile unlocking device such as a smartphone or the like. An integrated security chip and real-time clock may be included to increase security.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 30, 2019
    Publication date: May 6, 2021
    Inventors: Stephen Vincent Zsigray, III, Eric Daley, Christopher Shane Hickingbottom, Todd J. Person
  • Publication number: 20160044472
    Abstract: The invention provides systems, methods and devices that allow a hotel guest room management system to manage the activation and opening of hotel locks, as well as for managing the data associated with those locks. When implemented as a software application (or “App(s)”), the Apps, typically proprietary to individual hotel companies or hotel management companies, use the invention implemented as a system and preferably enabled as a Software Development Kit (“SDK”).
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 7, 2014
    Publication date: February 11, 2016
    Inventor: Todd J. Person
  • Patent number: 9076083
    Abstract: Technologies are provided in embodiments to enable secure one-time printing for electronic coupons. The embodiments are configured to provide, for display on a display screen of a user device, one or more coupon offers, to receive information indicating at least one offer is selected by a user, to communicate a unique identifier of the user device and an indication of the at least one selected offer to a coupon platform, and to receive the at least one selected offer to be printed if the at least one selected offer is available. Embodiments are also configured to bypass a print dialog box to provide the at least one selected offer directly to a default printer associated with the user device. Specific embodiments are configured to communicate to the coupon platform whether the print was successful. In specific embodiments, coupon codes are not displayed with the one or more coupon offers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 7, 2015
    Assignee: Koupon Media, Inc.
    Inventors: Todd J. Person, Benjamin Walker