Patent ID: 7315823
Filing Date: 2008-01-01
Classification: G06Q,G07C,H04W

Abstract:
1. A system for a hotel for wireless facility reservation and/or check-in and/or check-out and for facility access control, comprising: a communication network interconnecting a telecommunication system adapted to communicate wirelessly with a wireless telecommunication device of a wireless terminal of a user and a computerized reservation/IT system associated with a facility, said computerized reservation/IT system including a means for electronic communication with a remotely operable door lock of the facility, said remotely operable door lock including a lock device and a first wireless device operationally associated with the lock device and adapted to communicate wirelessly with a second wireless device of the wireless terminal, said wireless terminal including the wireless telecommunication means arranged in communication with the second wireless communication device and arranged to communicate via the wireless telecommunication means to the computerized reservation/IT system a reservation and/or check-in request of a terminal user; wherein the computerized reservation/IT system is arranged to automatically generate an electronic key upon receiving from the wireless terminal a hotel reservation and/or check-in request, automatically and wirelessly communicate the electronic key to the wireless terminal that originated the reservation and/or check-in request, and automatically communicate electronically to the remotely operable door lock associated with a hotel room assigned to the user in response to the reservation and/or check-in request information corresponding to the electronic key, and the remotely operable door lock is arranged to: automatically and wirelessly obtain, without the user of the wireless terminal having to press a button, the electronic key from the wireless terminal if the second wireless device and the first wireless device are mutually in-range, automatically actuate the lock device to enable the user to access the hotel room if the key obtained from the wireless terminal corresponds to the information received from the computerized reservation/IT system, and a wireless monitoring unit in electronic communication with the computerized reservation/IT system, said wireless monitoring unit including a third wireless device and arranged to: obtain wirelessly a copy of the electronic the key from the wireless terminal if the second wireless device and the third wireless device are mutually in-range, and communicate the copy of the electronic key obtained from the wireless terminal to the reservation/IT system, and wherein the reservation/IT system in response to receiving the copy of the electronic key is arranged to communicate an invalidation command in respect of information corresponding to the electronic key if a reservation period associated with the electronic key has expired.