Patent ID: 7108177
Filing Date: 2006-09-19
Classification: G06F,G07C

Abstract:
1. A gate keeping system for user accessible stations, the system comprising: multiple operational spaces, wherein each operational space has at least one transceiver associated therewith, and has at least one of the user accessible stations associated therewith; a server communicably connected to each of the user accessible stations for sending commands allowing and terminating user access to each station; and an RFID tag having a program that embodies user unique credentials, capable of providing user access to at least one of the stations, of a user associated with the RFID tag; wherein each of the transceivers is communicably connected to the server and capable of sending an RF interrogation signal, and the RFID tag is capable of sending an RF signal in response to receiving the interrogation signal when located in the operational space associated with the transceiver; and wherein the server has programming to relate the user unique credentials to at least one of the stations for which the user unique credential provides access in the operational space, and to allow user access to the at least one station for which the user unique credential provides access when the tag is located within the operational space.