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Interactive key control system and method of managing access to secured locations

US7120935B2 · kind B2 · utility

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Filing dateAug 10, 2001
Grant dateOct 10, 2006
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Expiry dateJan 27, 2024

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC Y)Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
  • CPC primaryY10T70/65
  • WIPO fieldControl
  • WIPO sectorInstruments

Abstract

An interactive method and system for managing access to one or more secured locations by one of more users via a global communication network which comprises software made up of a plurality of databases, each of the databases requiring a different level of access to the secured locations as well as being able to perform one or more functions at each different level of access, and a key or other entry control device is assigned to each user for use in gaining access to one or more of the locations at a predetermined level of access assigned to that user, the system as described being capable of being added to, deleted in whole or in part, or modified, and the databases are capable of maintaining the status of the entry control devices, locations and users in a real time mode for instantaneous access, maintenance and control anywhere in the world.

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