Patent ID: 8191110
Filing Date: 2012-05-29
Classification: H04L

Abstract:
1. A method for operating a data processing network including a plurality of individual devices, each enabling user access, the method comprising: permitting an identification object, carriable by a user of the data processing network, to exchange data in a wireless fashion with an access control device connected to at least one of the individual devices, upon the identification object being detected as being sufficiently close to the access control device; allowing the user access to the data processing network as a function of data stored on the identification object and transmitted, in the data exchange, to the one individual device; permitting a further identification object, of a further user of the data processing network detected by the access control device, to exchange data in a wireless fashion with the access control device, the identification object and further identification object being automatically assigned different usage rights as a function of an elapsed time between the detection of the identification object and the further identification object by the access control device; displaying, if a time interval is less than a time interval between a time of registration of the identification object after detection by the access control device and the time of registration of the further identification object, an option menu showing data assigned to the identification object and further identification object in a similar fashion; and displaying, if a time interval between the time of registration of the identification object and the time of registration of the further identification object is exceeded, an option menu which displays data assigned to a last detected identification object in a secondary manner.