Patent ID: 8123119

Claim:
Apparatus comprising: an electronic key module operative to selectively unlatch a cover lock, wherein the cover lock is operative to selectively hold a body in overlying blocking relation of a key opening associated with a key lock on a safety deposit box door of a safety deposit box, wherein the safety deposit box door has in operative connection therewith a wireless indicator that identifies the particular safety deposit box, wherein the electronic key module includes: a housing; at least one movable portion in operatively supported connection with the housing; an actuator in operative connection with the at least one movable portion; at least one processor; at least one data store, wherein the data store includes stored data; at least one reader; wherein the at least one reader is operative to receive at least one wireless signal from the wireless indicator, and wherein the at least one processor is operative to determine at least one relationship between signal data corresponding to the at least one wireless signal and the stored data in the at least one data store; and wherein the at least one processor is operative responsive to the determined at least one relationship, to cause the actuator to move the at least one movable portion to an actuating condition, wherein the movable portion in the actuating condition is operative to cause the cover lock to unlatch.