Locker system access control

US10504313B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• Deutsche Post AG · DE

Inventors

• Christoph Dautz · Bonn, DE
• Markus von Gostomski · Bonn, DE
• Birgit Lange · Lübeck, DE
• Nadra Mechlaoui · Bonn, DE
• Cem Celikkaya · Neunburg vorm Wald, DE
• Marc Bauer · Reutlingen, DE
• Michal Kolodziej · Wrocław, PL
• Johannes Schröder · Neunburg vorm Wald, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Jun 1, 2018
• Grant date: Dec 10, 2019
• Expiry date: Jun 1, 2038

Classification

• Technology area (CPC G): Physics
• CPC primary: G07C2009/00769
• WIPO field: Control
• WIPO sector: Instruments

Abstract

A method is disclosed in which a challenge from a locker system is transmitted to a mobile device. A response is received from the mobile device at the locker system, and the response was generated by a backend system, which received the challenge from the mobile device, at least based on the challenge received by the backend system and on a first key stored at the backend system and has been transmitted to the mobile device. At the locker system, it is checked whether the received response was generated under usage of at least the challenge and a key that corresponds to a second key stored at the locker system. Access is granted to a compartment of the locker system at least depending on a result of the checking. Further disclosed are methods performed by the mobile device and the backend system, and according apparatuses pertaining to these methods.