Patent ID: 8700729

Claim:
A method of issuing a credential to a wireless device and providing the issued credential from the wireless device to a reader device, the method comprising: receiving a request for the issuance of the credential with a credential issuing server, the request including an E.164 phone number associated with the wireless device; accepting a routable address associated with the request, the routable address being resolvable in a data network from the E.164 phone number of the wireless device at which to transmit the credential; accepting data defining the credential; issuing the credential as defined by the data to the wireless device through a secure transmission path comprising the data network and a wireless link; mapping a reader key to the issued credential, wherein the reader key is received from an issuer of the issued credential; and receiving the issued credential via radio frequency (RF) at the reader device in response to the reader device transmitting the reader key to the wireless device via RF so as to select the associated credential.