Timed Access Blocking Patents (Class 340/5.28)
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Patent number: 11954650Abstract: The described techniques relate generally to managing in-person access of users to physical properties based at least in part on tracking geographical locations of devices of the users, such as by using one or more geofences created around a physical property to provide authorized users with temporary access to the physical property based at least in part on tracked geographical locations of devices of the users. In some situations, a specialized server provides information to a user's mobile device about the geofence(s), and the mobile device notifies the specialized server when it breaches one or more of the geofences. The specialized server may perform further related activities, such as perform tracking of locations of users as they move around a physical property, and further analyzing the tracked location information to determine associated information and initiate corresponding additional automated activities.Type: GrantFiled: December 31, 2022Date of Patent: April 9, 2024Assignee: MFTB Holdco, Inc.Inventors: Michael P. Caputo, Scott E. Woodard, Paul G. Bergman, David C. Bernhard
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Patent number: 11833998Abstract: A computer includes a processor and a memory, the memory storing instructions executable by the processor to input a signal received from a portable device to a machine learning program trained to output a location of the portable device relative to a vehicle, collect operating data of one or more vehicle components, predict an action of a vehicle user based on the predicted location, and, based on the predicted action of the vehicle user, actuate one or more vehicle components. The machine learning program is trained with a training dataset that is updatable to include the signal, the output predicted location, the collected operating data, the predicted action, and an identified action performed by the vehicle user.Type: GrantFiled: February 17, 2021Date of Patent: December 5, 2023Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLCInventors: Ryan Burke, Devesh Upadhyay
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Patent number: 11802421Abstract: An electronic lockbox includes a latching apparatus that uses a rotary actuator with multiple positions to achieve multiple locking states. Multiple positions of the actuator are detected, using optical sensors. The locking mechanism includes an outer sleeve and an inner cylindrical barrel that are coupled with torsion springs. The lockbox has a shackle and a key bin that include latch pins which are retained by the inner barrel when in the locked state, and the barrel can be rotated to either release the shackle or to release the key bin that typically holds a building's key. During insertion of a latch pin into the rotatable barrel, a first interior protrusion is sufficiently wide such that after the first latch pin has been inserted into the barrel and has become latched, the first latch pin does not unlatch itself as the second latch pin is inserted and rotates the rotatable barrel during the second latch pin insertion.Type: GrantFiled: February 3, 2023Date of Patent: October 31, 2023Assignee: SentriLock, LLCInventors: Scott R. Fisher, Alan F. Deardoff, Nancy C. Griffiths, Daniel C. Cambron, Matthew K. Caskey
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Patent number: 11769028Abstract: In various aspects, the present disclosure is directed to a device and method enabling communication only in case of a personal identification. In some aspects, a communication device is provided, the communication device comprising a transponder unit configured for at least one of sending data to and receiving data from another communication device, a biometric sensor unit configured to sense biometric data of a user of the communication device, and a security interface unit arranged between the transponder unit and the biometric sensor. Herein, the security interface unit is configured to enable the transponder unit for at least one of sending and receiving data upon biometric data sensed by the biometric sensor being verified as representing verified biometric data, and the transponder unit comprises a communication interface having a state machine.Type: GrantFiled: June 12, 2019Date of Patent: September 26, 2023Assignee: LINXENS HOLDINGInventors: Stephan Radke, Sophie Butt
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Patent number: 11470442Abstract: A method includes the steps of electronically generating a pass for a user within a facility; electronically tracking the location of the user within the facility; electronically generating a notification of an event; electronically receiving a message from the user whether the user is inside or outside of the facility; and electronically generating a list of people inside the facility.Type: GrantFiled: September 4, 2019Date of Patent: October 11, 2022Inventor: Daniel Bontempo
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Patent number: 11222513Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a money handling apparatus including: a money storage unit configured to store money; a locking unit configured to limit access to the money storage unit; and a control unit configured to give unlock permission to unlock the locking unit to at least one of a plurality of qualified persons who are qualified to unlock the locking unit, and to perform a process involving change of the qualified person.Type: GrantFiled: June 12, 2017Date of Patent: January 11, 2022Assignee: Glory Ltd.Inventors: Kenichi Ino, Michiharu Iwamura
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Patent number: 11221666Abstract: The system and method of externally powered cold key load injects a voltage into a cryptographic computer without disturbing any data pins. There are several mechanical approaches that are viable, a Y cable implementation, a two cable solution, a direct connect solution, and more. The system includes the ability to provide a variable voltage power source to the cryptographic computer.Type: GrantFiled: December 19, 2019Date of Patent: January 11, 2022Assignee: BAE Systems Information and Electronic Systems Integration Inc.Inventor: Roman Khazanovich
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Patent number: 11182989Abstract: A method includes receiving, by an armed monitoring system of a property and from a user, a disarm code, comparing the received disarm code to a stored disarm code, determining that the received disarm code matches the stored disarm code, determining a property access pattern that corresponds to the stored disarm code, that identifies a first door group of one or more doors inside the property that should be locked, and that identifies a second door group of one or more doors inside the property that should be unlocked, providing, to the first door group, a first instruction to lock, providing, to the second door group, a second instruction to unlock, and based on providing, to the first door group, the first instruction to lock and providing, to the second door group, the second instruction to unlock, disarming the monitoring system.Type: GrantFiled: July 27, 2020Date of Patent: November 23, 2021Assignee: Alarm.com IncorporatedInventors: Chad Giles, Linnea Giles
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Patent number: 11178214Abstract: A method for transmitting an electronic key of a device is provided. The method includes transmitting a user command for providing an electronic key to another device, providing a User Interface (UI) for setting a use condition of the electronic key when the user command is received, and transmitting the use condition information set through the UI to the other device together with the electronic key.Type: GrantFiled: September 24, 2018Date of Patent: November 16, 2021Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.Inventors: Hyun-young Kim, Hee-won Jung
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Patent number: 11176254Abstract: Disclosed are various embodiments for implementing automatic firmware rollbacks after a configured number of attempts to execute the latest firmware update associated with an electronic computing unit have occurred. In a computing device, such as an electronic computing unit, a watchdog automatically generates a system reset in response to a software fault. A reset counter is configured to count a number of system resets generated by the watchdog. In response to the occurrence of the watchdog, a configurable threshold value associated with a threshold data record is compared with the value associated with the reset counter. In response to a determination that the threshold value associated with the threshold data record is greater than or equal to the value associated with the reset counter, a rollback application is executed such that the rollback application performs a swap of a first version of a firmware with a second version of the firmware.Type: GrantFiled: July 3, 2019Date of Patent: November 16, 2021Assignee: NXP USA, Inc.Inventors: Stefan Singer, Osvaldo Israel Romero Cortez, Guillaume Perret
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Patent number: 11133575Abstract: A small cell base station includes a remote radio head that is configured for mounting on an aerial strand, a phased array antenna and a mechanical linkage. The phased array antenna is hung below the remote radio head via the mechanical linkage, and the mechanical linkage is configured to allow the phased array antenna to move relative to the remote radio head.Type: GrantFiled: November 14, 2018Date of Patent: September 28, 2021Assignee: CommScope Technologies LLCInventors: Mark E. Alrutz, Michael Guerin
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Patent number: 11052873Abstract: The invention relates to a method for operating an anti-theft system of a motor vehicle, comprising a communication system for near field communication and a storage device within a transmission and reception zone of the communication system. The mobile terminal is deposited in a control area in the interior compartment of the motor vehicle, the control area being located outside the transmission and reception zone. The deposited mobile terminal is connected to the communication system by a connecting device, which may, e.g., take the form of a cable, and a wired data communication connection is established. A control unit detects whether the data communication connection has been established with the mobile terminal by the connecting device and detects whether the mobile terminal is authorised to operate the anti-theft system, and depending on whether the authorisation has been detected, activates and/or deactivates a function of the anti-theft system.Type: GrantFiled: May 24, 2018Date of Patent: July 6, 2021Assignee: VOLKSWAGEN AKTIENGESELLSCHAFTInventor: Claus-Peter Brückner
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Patent number: 10846957Abstract: A wireless access control system is provided to lock or unlock a first door at a dwelling of a user. A user remote access device accepts input based on haptic feedback or motion. The user remote access device includes a vibration mode provides an alert to the user of the remote access device. The user remote access device is configured to be in communication with an intelligent door lock system at the dwelling with the first door. The intelligent door lock system includes: a drive shaft, a circuit coupled to an engine configured to cause a rotation of the drive shaft, and an energy source coupled to the drive shaft. In response to the user remote access device accepting input based on haptic feedback or motion the bolt is caused to move and the first lock is locked or unlocked.Type: GrantFiled: November 21, 2018Date of Patent: November 24, 2020Assignee: August Home, Inc.Inventors: Shih Yu Thomas Cheng, Jason Johnson, Christopher Kim, Joseph Aranda
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Patent number: 10579955Abstract: Systems and methods for performing various shipping related functionality are presented. The methods can automatically predict shipping attributes based on historical shipping data, and automatically purchase postage for a current shipment from a shared postage account while preventing the postage account shared among multiple users from having insufficient funds. Furthermore, predictions of shipping attributes for shipments may not be presented to a user, until the certainty of the predictions reaches or surpasses a confidence level or a threshold, where the confidence level or the threshold can be determined and changed by a user. Even when the certainty of the predictions reaches or surpasses a confidence level, and the predictions are presented to the user, the user can accept, reject, or change the predicted attributes.Type: GrantFiled: June 30, 2015Date of Patent: March 3, 2020Assignee: Auctane, LLCInventors: Byron J. Wier, Jason Hodges, Paul D. Henry
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Patent number: 10565843Abstract: Described is a security sensor comprising two or more sub-sensors for use in a variety of installations where different magnetic fields may be experienced by the security sensor as a result of the variety of installations. One of the sub-sensors may have a low magnetic sensitivity while the other sub-sensor may have a much higher sensitivity to magnetic fields. In operation, one or both sub-sensors are used to determine if a door or a window has been opened.Type: GrantFiled: August 8, 2017Date of Patent: February 18, 2020Assignee: Ecolink Intelligent Technology, Inc.Inventor: Brandon Hunt
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Patent number: 10559192Abstract: A method performed at a computer system includes: obtaining door lock activation data for a door of a dwelling of the user; obtaining current occupancy data for the dwelling; setting a configuration of a controller for the dwelling, based at least in part on the door lock activation data for the door and the current occupancy data for the dwelling; the first configuration including for each sensor in a set of sensors coupled to the controller, disabling the sensor or disabling alerts from the sensor.Type: GrantFiled: October 29, 2018Date of Patent: February 11, 2020Assignee: GOOGLE LLCInventors: Jesse William Boettcher, Sophie Solveig Le Guen, Jason Rundle Rukes, Ted Stephen Boda, David Sloo
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Patent number: 10526814Abstract: A wireless ultra-low power portable lock may be realized as a lock apparatus including: a locking mechanism having at least locked and unlocked states, the locking mechanism operable to provide physical resistance to being unlocked when in the locked state; an actuator operable to move the locking mechanism from the locked state to the unlocked state in response to a received signal; and a controlling unit configured to control the actuator and to receive one or more signals from one or more devices external to the lock apparatus.Type: GrantFiled: April 17, 2019Date of Patent: January 7, 2020Assignee: VELO LABS, INC.Inventors: Jack Al-Kahwati, Gerardo Barroeta Perez
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Patent number: 10464800Abstract: Disclosed are various embodiments for dispensing and tracking beverages. An identifier associated with a user can be read by an identification device. Beverage availability information for the user can be determined. The beverage availability information can specify categories of beverages that the user is authorized to dispense. Valves can be selected that correspond to the authorized beverage categories. The valves can be enabled to allow the user to dispense beverages from the authorized beverage categories. The quantity of beverages dispensed can be tracked.Type: GrantFiled: July 27, 2016Date of Patent: November 5, 2019Assignee: DraftServ Technologies, LLCInventors: Jose Hevia, Tobi Pequignot, Kevin Nye, Hitesh Patel
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Patent number: 10467835Abstract: An access control apparatus includes a selectively-lockable access portal for a facility, an order number entry terminal, and a control circuit operably coupled to the foregoing components and configured to control a lock state of the selectively-lockable access portal as a function of an order number entered via the order number entry terminal. By one approach the order number entry terminal includes a keypad and is disposed proximal to a corresponding selectively-lockable access portal. By one approach the aforementioned order number comprises an advanced shipping notice (ASN) number.Type: GrantFiled: March 16, 2016Date of Patent: November 5, 2019Assignee: Walmart Apollo, LLCInventors: Nicholaus A. Jones, Matthew A. Jones, Robert J. Taylor
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Patent number: 10378241Abstract: A wireless ultra-low power portable lock may be realized as a lock apparatus including: a locking mechanism having at least locked and unlocked states, the locking mechanism operable to provide physical resistance to being unlocked when in the locked state; an actuator operable to move the locking mechanism from the locked state to the unlocked state in response to a received signal; and a controlling unit configured to control the actuator and to receive one or more signals from one or more devices external to the lock apparatus.Type: GrantFiled: May 7, 2014Date of Patent: August 13, 2019Assignee: VELO LABS, INC.Inventors: Jack Al-Kahwati, Gerardo Barroeta Perez
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Patent number: 10331575Abstract: A memory device incorporates a chip enable protection circuit implementing a secured chip enable method providing a passcode protected enable scheme with secure chip disable for the memory device. The passcode can be programmed at manufacturing or programmed by the user. Memory device access is enabled by receiving the correct passcode and memory device access is denied when the wrong passcode is entered. Furthermore, the secured chip enable method implements secure chip disable where the memory device is disabled in response to receiving wrong passcodes repeatedly for a maximum number of tries.Type: GrantFiled: April 11, 2017Date of Patent: June 25, 2019Assignee: Integrated Silicon Solution, Inc.Inventor: Seong Jun Jang
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Patent number: 10270614Abstract: A method and a device for controlling a timed task are provided. The method applied in a first apparatus includes: receiving the timed task, wherein the timed task carries an execution time of the timed task; and sending the timed task to a second apparatus before the execution time of the timed task. The method applied in a second apparatus includes: receiving a timed task sent by a first apparatus; and executing the timed task in response to the execution time.Type: GrantFiled: July 20, 2017Date of Patent: April 23, 2019Assignee: BEIJING XIAOMI MOBILE SOFTWARE CO., LTD.Inventors: Qiang Fu, Hong Chen, Enxing Hou
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Patent number: 10225707Abstract: A guidance system for helping users locate specific affordance configurations for use within an enterprise space, the system comprising a stationary display field located within the enterprise space, the display field controlled to present guidance information to a system user, a database storing affordance configuration schedules and user schedules, a processor programmed to automatically perform the steps of obtaining location information for a set of users within the enterprise space, for at least a first user proximate the display field, examining the first user's schedule information to identify locations of activities scheduled for the first user within a threshold period of time, identifying at least one affordance configuration within the enterprise space that is proximate the locations of the activities scheduled for the first user within the threshold period of time and automatically presenting the identified at least one affordance configuration via the display field as a suggestion to the first usType: GrantFiled: March 26, 2018Date of Patent: March 5, 2019Assignee: Steelcase Inc.Inventors: Robert Scheper, Darrin Sculley
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Patent number: 10196835Abstract: A locking key for changing a locked state by being inserted into a key box includes a first base including a metal complex and in which a first pattern groove is formed, and a first pattern provided in the first pattern groove and including a conductive material.Type: GrantFiled: December 13, 2016Date of Patent: February 5, 2019Assignee: Hyundai Motor CompanyInventors: Donghee Seok, Gideok Kwon, Jong Bok Lee
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Patent number: 10140846Abstract: Systems and techniques are provided for security system re-arming. Input invoking restricted credentials may be received. The security system of an environment may be changed from a first mode to a second mode based on the restricted credentials. The restricted credentials used to change the security system to the second mode may be determined to be near expiration based on an expiration condition of the restricted credentials. A notification may be sent to a person associated with the restricted credentials including a reminder to use the restricted credentials to change the security system to the first mode before the restricted credentials expire.Type: GrantFiled: December 20, 2017Date of Patent: November 27, 2018Assignee: GOOGLE LLCInventors: Laura Rabb, David Louis Warner, Jeffrey Alan Boyd, Jeffery Theodore Lee, Mark Rajan Malhotra, Kenneth Louis Herman, James Eric Mason
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Patent number: 10032328Abstract: A rotation detection system for detecting the rotation of a lock dial includes a magnet coupled to the lock dial to generate a changing magnetic field in response to rotation of the lock dial, a sensor disposed near enough to the magnet to detect the magnetic field and provide a sensor output signal indicative of the magnetic field, and a controller coupled to the sensor for receiving the sensor output signal, the controller providing a controller output signal in response to a change in the sensor output signal. An alarm interface can receive the controller output signal and provide an alarm signal.Type: GrantFiled: December 15, 2015Date of Patent: July 24, 2018Assignee: Sargent & Greenleaf, Inc.Inventors: George Marshall Horne, Michael Robert Clark
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Patent number: 9991936Abstract: Lock arrangement and method for transferring electrical power with a lock arrangement that includes a counterpart of the lock and an electrical lock including a lock case. A device for wirelessly sending electrical power to the lock case and/or into connection with the lock case is arranged in connection with the counterpart of the lock, and arranged in the lock case and/or in connection with the lock case are a device for wirelessly receiving electrical power from the device for sending electrical power that is arranged in connection with the counterpart of the lock. The counterpart of the lock wirelessly sends electrical power to the lock case and/or into connection with the lock case with the device that is for sending electrical power, and the lock case wirelessly receives electrical power from the counterpart of the lock with the device that is for receiving electrical power, when the lock and the counterpart of the lock are at a certain distance from each other.Type: GrantFiled: December 22, 2015Date of Patent: June 5, 2018Assignee: ROLLOCK OYInventors: Timo Toivonen, Hannu Kankkunen
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Patent number: 9969354Abstract: A lid lock device includes a push lifter which pushes a lid, a lid lock switch which detects whether the lid is pushed, a lid sensor which detects whether the lid is open or closed. A lid lock unit locks the lid when the lid is closed. A verification unit verifies an identification code transmitted from an electronic key. Under a situation in which the verification result of the verification unit indicates that the identification code has been verified and the detection result of the lid sensor indicates that the lid is closed, a control unit activates the lid lock unit to switch the lid between a locked state and an unlocked state when the lid lock switch detects that the closed lid has been pushed.Type: GrantFiled: June 30, 2014Date of Patent: May 15, 2018Assignees: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOKAI RIKA DENKI SEISAKUSHO, TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Koichi Kojima, Eiji Kitano, Yamato Niwa, Keigo Nishimoto, Tomohiro Inoue
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Patent number: 9965612Abstract: A method for visual authentication with a monitoring system. The method includes pre-provisioning the monitoring system with a reference visual authentication element, obtaining an image of a user-presented visual authentication element and generating a validation result by validating the user-presented visual authentication element against the reference visual authentication element. The method further includes, based on the validation result, making a determination that the user-presented visual authentication element matches the reference visual authentication element, and taking an action affiliated with the reference visual authentication element.Type: GrantFiled: April 19, 2016Date of Patent: May 8, 2018Inventor: Alexander William Teichman
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Patent number: 9959426Abstract: A method and an apparatus for specifying a time-varying, intelligent service-oriented model are provided. A method implemented in a computer infrastructure having computer executable code embodied on a computer readable storage medium having programming instructions, includes defining information of a service which is to be provided to one or more users having access to a system storing the defined information. The method further includes defining policies associated with the defined information to allow and deny access to selected portions of the defined information, and exposing to a user of the one or more users the selected portions of the defined information based on the defined policies allowing access to the selected portions of the defined information.Type: GrantFiled: February 9, 2017Date of Patent: May 1, 2018Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATIONInventors: Sreekanth R. Iyer, Sandeep R. Patil, Sri Ramanathan, Gandhi Sivakumar, Matthew B. Trevathan
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Patent number: 9928675Abstract: Provided is a digital doorlock system including a doorlock configured to transmit an iBeacon signal and reduce a period of Bluetooth connection when recognizing proximity of a user terminal and a touch or a press on a keypad, wherein the doorlock is wirelessly connected to the user terminal so that an opening/closing operation of the doorlock is controlled, a user application installed in the user terminal and configured to enter a state of being capable of controlling the doorlock upon receiving the iBeacon signal and control the opening/closing operation of the doorlock when wirelessly connected to the doorlock via the user terminal, and a management server configured to provide a password for controlling the opening/closing operation of the doorlock to the user application through user authentication.Type: GrantFiled: April 11, 2017Date of Patent: March 27, 2018Assignee: CHAHOO Co., Ltd.Inventors: Chang Hoon Shin, Sung Hyuk Kang
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Patent number: 9911318Abstract: A method performed at a computer system includes: receiving current location data for a user; receiving door lock activation data for a door of a dwelling of the user; receiving current occupancy data for the dwelling; determining a configuration of a controller for the dwelling, based at least in part on the received current location data for the user, the received door lock activation data for the door, and the received current occupancy data for the dwelling; if the door was locked from inside the dwelling and the user is present in the dwelling, setting or sending instructions to set a configuration of the controller to a first configuration; and, if the door was locked from outside the dwelling and the user is not present in the dwelling, setting or sending instructions to set the configuration of the controller to a second configuration, distinct from the first configuration.Type: GrantFiled: March 27, 2015Date of Patent: March 6, 2018Assignee: GOOGLE LLCInventors: Jesse William Boettcher, Sophie Solveig Le Guen, Jason Rundle Rukes, Ted Stephen Boda, David Sloo
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Patent number: 9889979Abstract: A lock-box may include a set of walls defining a compartment, an electromechanical lock assembly, and a door rotatably coupled to the set of walls that, when in a closed position, forms a fully enclosed lock-box, the door including a front side that includes a user interface in communication with the electromechanical lock assembly, and by which a user interfaces to lock and unlock the door. The front side of the door further includes a panel configured to be backlit and an illumination device configured to backlight the panel.Type: GrantFiled: December 30, 2014Date of Patent: February 13, 2018Assignee: Safemark Systems, LPInventor: Scott Nelson
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Patent number: 9870560Abstract: The invention concerns a payment arrangement in an online shopping. In the method a request for a transaction code containing at least predefined user-related identification information is received. The content of the request is compared to stored information and, in response to a positive outcome of the comparison, a transaction code is generated, stored and delivered to the requesting party. In the next phase an inserted transaction code is received for verification and it is compared to the generated transaction code stored. In response to a positive outcome of the comparison the payment information is confirmed to the requesting entity. The invention also relates to a network element, a system and a computer program product implementing the method.Type: GrantFiled: August 13, 2012Date of Patent: January 16, 2018Assignee: TELIA COMPANY ABInventor: Jarkko Tarnanen
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Patent number: 9870698Abstract: Systems and techniques are provided for security system re-arming. Input invoking restricted credentials may be received. The security system of an environment may be changed from a first mode to a second mode based on the restricted credentials. The restricted credentials used to change the security system to the second mode may be determined to be near expiration based on an expiration condition of the restricted credentials. A notification may be sent to a person associated with the restricted credentials including a reminder to use the restricted credentials to change the security system to the first mode before the restricted credentials expire.Type: GrantFiled: November 10, 2015Date of Patent: January 16, 2018Assignee: GOOGLE LLCInventors: Laura Rabb, David Louis Warner, Jeffrey Alan Boyd, Jeffery Theodore Lee, Mark Rajan Malhotra, Kenneth Louis Herman, James Eric Mason
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Patent number: 9805531Abstract: An access arrangement for a vehicle includes a vehicle-side transceiver for transmitting query signals in a chronologically successive manner in first specified time intervals. The access arrangement also includes at least one mobile identification transmitter including an identification transmitter-side transceiver with an adjustable reception sensitivity for receiving the query signals of the vehicle-side transceiver. Furthermore, the access arrangement includes a monitoring device for outputting a control command in order to reduce the sensitivity of the identification transmitter-side transceiver by a first specified amount if the identification transmitter-side transceiver has received a specified number of query signals transmitted by the vehicle-side transceiver. By reducing the reception sensitivity, a stationary identification transmitter in the vicinity of the vehicle for example remains operational but no longer reacts to query signals of the vehicle-side transceiver, whereby power can be saved.Type: GrantFiled: September 3, 2013Date of Patent: October 31, 2017Assignee: CONTINENTAL AUTOMOTIVE GMBHInventors: Herbert Froitzheim, Alexander Kramer
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Patent number: 9783160Abstract: A door unlocking system with which only a specific door can also be unlocked if a user operates an operation unit of a communication device. A control device determines whether or not a communication device is present in any of regions Ra to Rc by communicating with the communication device located outside of the vehicle, using a wireless communication unit in the vehicle. When an operation signal transmitted from the communication device is received by the wireless communication unit in the vehicle in a case where the communication device is present in any of the regions Ra to Rc, only a door that is associated with the region Ra (or Rb or Rc) in which the communication device is present is unlocked.Type: GrantFiled: November 10, 2014Date of Patent: October 10, 2017Assignees: AutoNetworks Technologies, Ltd., Sumitomo Wiring Systems, Ltd., Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd.Inventor: Kazutaka Naitou
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Patent number: 9692638Abstract: A communications system and method includes a database for storing problem magnitudes relating to failed attempts at accessing servers using connection engines. An intelligent routing engine could be a server operative with the database, which queries the database and delays any further attempts at accessing the server using the first connection engine if the problem magnitude exceeds a predetermined threshold. Reattempts can be made after a sufficient delay. A plurality of connection engines can be used by a client for accessing a server. The connection engines are preferably distributed among a plurality of subnets and/or IP addresses and a different connection engine can be chosen based on a desired route with minimum problems.Type: GrantFiled: September 8, 2010Date of Patent: June 27, 2017Assignee: BlackBerry LimitedInventor: Shaibal Roy
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Patent number: 9659191Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices are described for encryption key storage and modification in a data storage device. A portion of an encryption key may be stored in a first storage medium, and one or more bits of the encryption key may be stored in a one-time writable storage location. Data received at the data storage device may be encrypted using the encryption key, and may be stored in a storage medium. In the event that it is no longer desired to allow users to access the encrypted data stored in the storage medium, the one or more bits of the encryption key stored in a one-time writable storage location may be modified. Such modification thereby prevents decryption of the encrypted data and effectively precludes access to the encrypted data.Type: GrantFiled: April 9, 2014Date of Patent: May 23, 2017Assignee: SEAGATE TECHNOLOGY LLCInventor: George Christian Cope
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Patent number: 9621557Abstract: A method and an apparatus for specifying a time-varying, intelligent service-oriented model are provided. A method implemented in a computer infrastructure having computer executable code embodied on a computer readable storage medium having programming instructions, includes defining information of a service which is to be provided to one or more users having access to a system storing the defined information. The method further includes defining policies associated with the defined information to allow and deny access to selected portions of the defined information, and exposing to a user of the one or more users the selected portions of the defined information based on the defined policies allowing access to the selected portions of the defined information.Type: GrantFiled: January 28, 2016Date of Patent: April 11, 2017Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATIONInventors: Sreekanth R. Iyer, Sandeep R. Patil, Sri Ramanathan, Gandhi Sivakumar, Matthew B. Trevathan
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Patent number: 9598879Abstract: A system for identifying a key to a lock. The system uses a simple scanner. Within the scanner, a plate is illuminated by at least one LED. Opposite the plate is positioned a matrix of photodetectors. The plate and the matrix of photodetectors are separated by a slot that is sized to receive the key. The matrix of photodetectors generates an electronic signal that is indicative of light from the plate that passes across the key in the slot. A memory is provided that stores known key signals. A processor is provided that compares the newly generated electronic signal to the known key signals in the memory to find a match. A display is provided for displaying information about which the key signals from memory is a match. In this manner, a person can identify the key.Type: GrantFiled: May 7, 2015Date of Patent: March 21, 2017Inventor: Lutrell Denson
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Patent number: 9588907Abstract: In a portable data carrier having a non-volatile memory, a memory controller and a memory interface, an effected initial operation of the data carrier is checked through a request to a security unit of the data carrier via a security interface connected to the security unit. For this purpose, the data carrier comprises a memory portion comprising the memory interface and a body portion comprising the security interface, which are interconnected such that the memory portion can be folded out of the body portion, so that simultaneously the memory interface is laid open for a connection to an end device and the electrical connection between the security unit and the security interface is disconnected irreversibly.Type: GrantFiled: February 15, 2012Date of Patent: March 7, 2017Assignee: GIESECKE & DEVRIENT GMBHInventors: Michael Baldischweiler, Wolfgang Rankl
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Patent number: 9531722Abstract: A method includes receiving, at one or more server computers, an activity information request regarding an object; determining whether a user associated with the activity information request is currently authorized to access the object or was previously authorized to access the object; if the user is currently authorized to access the object, permitting unrestricted access to a plurality of activity information items describing actions associated with the object; and if the user was previously authorized to access the object, permitting access to a filtered set of activity information items based on the plurality of activity information items.Type: GrantFiled: October 31, 2013Date of Patent: December 27, 2016Assignee: GOOGLE INC.Inventors: George York, Donald Dylan Douglas, William Buckner Davis
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Patent number: 9517304Abstract: A medical device system includes at least one controllable patient-worn or patient-carried medical device, and a plurality of controller devices that are capable of independently controlling features or functions of the patient medical device. Control commands and other data is wirelessly communicated among the patient medical device and the multiple controller devices. A number of techniques, protocols, and other measures are provided to coordinate wireless communication between the various devices in a medical device system. These control command coordination processes address situations where conflicting, redundant, or concurrent control commands might be independently issued by the multiple controller devices.Type: GrantFiled: November 10, 2014Date of Patent: December 13, 2016Assignee: Medtronic MiniMed, Inc.Inventors: Sheldon B. Moberg, Ian B. Hanson
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Patent number: 9508206Abstract: A lock system including an electronic lock and a wireless device having a location determining utility configured to determine a location of the wireless device. The electronic lock and the wireless device communicate wirelessly with one another and send commands to and from one another to perform a specific task when the wireless device is within a specified range of the electronic lock. The location of the wireless device and a speed of the wireless device may be used to calculate an estimated arrival of the wireless device at the electronic lock, and the specific task may be performed substantially at the estimated arrival.Type: GrantFiled: August 16, 2013Date of Patent: November 29, 2016Assignee: Schlage Lock Company LLCInventors: John Robert Ahearn, Joseph Wayne Baumgarte, Gabriel Daniel Focke, Michael Scott Henney
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Patent number: 9218696Abstract: A wireless access control system includes a remote access device and an electronic lock. The electronic lock communicates with the remote access device. The electronic lock controls the ability to lock and unlock a door in which the electronic lock is disposed. The electronic lock determines when the remote access device is at a distance less than or equal to a predetermined distance from the lock to enable the lock to be unlocked.Type: GrantFiled: April 8, 2015Date of Patent: December 22, 2015Assignee: UNIKEY TECHNOLOGIES INC.Inventors: Philip C. Dumas, Thomas Bennett
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Patent number: 9187105Abstract: A terminal device carried by a maintenance worker transmits, to a central control device, a request to maintain a first state in which a central control device controls a target device so that maintenance work is safely performed. The central control device transitions to a PIN lock state in which the first state is maintained, according to this request.Type: GrantFiled: September 20, 2011Date of Patent: November 17, 2015Assignee: Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd.Inventors: Hiroyuki Tamaribuchi, Yuto Kono
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Patent number: 9098490Abstract: A system and method for efficiently managing a vast amount of read data and genetic information obtained from sequencing data are provided. The system includes a parsing unit reading the read data and converting the read data into a table-embedded index, a table management unit classifying the table-embedded index into a master table which contains basic items about the genetic information and a slave table which contains additional items about the genetic information and managing the master table and the slave table, a search unit retrieving data from the master table and/or the slave table and outputting the retrieved data.Type: GrantFiled: October 21, 2011Date of Patent: August 4, 2015Assignee: SAMSUNG SDS CO., LTD.Inventors: Minseo Park, Woo-Yeon Kim
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Patent number: 9068846Abstract: Systems, methods, computer-readable media, and user interfaces are provided. In some aspects, the provided techniques transmit to a mobile device a notification of one or more buildings, service providers; or services relating to a geographic position of, or an environment of, the mobile device. Information relating to services provided in a building may be displayed to a user, and the user's selection may be received by the mobile device. The user may be guided to one or more service providers for the user-selected service. Further Information relating to services, service providers, and buildings may be presented to the user as relates to the user-selected service. Systems, methods, and computer-readable media are further provided that, in some instances, notify a service provider of a user's selection received by the mobile device and in some instances, notify a service provider of a geographic position for the mobile device.Type: GrantFiled: January 3, 2012Date of Patent: June 30, 2015Assignee: Google Inc.Inventor: Marcus Boerger
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Patent number: RE46539Abstract: An electronic lock box system includes a wireless portable transponder that communicates with an electronic lock box using a low power radio link. The portable transponder includes: a wide area network radio to communicate to a central clearinghouse computer, a motion sensor to activate its wide area network radio, and a connector to communicate with a secure memory device. The electronic lock box sends a hail message that is intercepted by the portable transponder; the hail message includes identification information. The portable transponder responds with a message that includes a time sensitive encryption key; the lock box authenticates this response message using its own time sensitive encryption key. If the messages are authenticated, the lock box sends an access event record to the portable transponder, and this access event record is stored in the secure memory device. If a wide area network is available, the portable transponder sends the access event record to the central clearinghouse computer.Type: GrantFiled: September 22, 2015Date of Patent: September 5, 2017Assignee: SentriLock, LLCInventor: Scott R. Fisher