Patent ID: 8730004

Claim:
A facility, comprising: an access control module located within the facility, the access control module comprising: a local access control logic configured to make a determination to either permit or deny user access to an asset controlled by the access control module; a locally-maintained list of credential identifiers that identifies credentials allowed to perform remote check-in at the access control module; and a check-in module configured to perform the following functions during a single transaction with an access credential without requiring the access control module to communicate with a centralized database or centralized access control logic during the single transaction: receive a credential identifier from the access credential that corresponds to credentials of a guest that has confirmed reservations with the facility, has been authorized to check-in to the facility, but currently has no access permissions for assets within the facility; compare the credential identifier to the locally-maintained list of credential identifiers; determine that the credential identifier matches at least one credential identifier in the list of credential identifiers; and based on determining that the credential identifier matches at least one credential identifier in the list of identifiers, invoke the access control module to encode the access credential that presented the credential identifier to the check-in module with access data that is useable by the access credential with other access control modules within the facility.