Patent ID: 9710987
Date: 2017-07-18
CPC Classifications: G06F,G07C,H04L,H04W

Claim:
1. A method of providing a guest with security credentials to gain access to a guest room, the method comprising: identifying a user; identifying a guest room of multiple guests rooms at a property and with which the user is intended to occupy; causing a security credentials server to generate a first security credential intended to be validated by a door lock system of a door to the identified guest room; and causing the first security credential to be communicated from the security credentials server to a separate credential distribution service that is configured to distribute the first security credential to a portable consumer electronic user device; causing a property server to communicate a first notification to the user device that the first security credential is available to be retrieved, wherein the property server is separate from the credential distribution service; causing, based on an activation by the user of a first option presented to the user through the user device in response to the first notification of the availability of the first security credential, the first security credential to be communicated from the credential distribution service, over a distributed network, to the user device associated with the user to be stored on the user device such that the user device is configured to wirelessly communicate the first security credential to the door lock system to gain access to the guest room.