Patent ID: 8108927

Claim:
A method for facilitating retrieval of combination codes for serialized combination locks from a serialized lock computer system, each of the plurality of combination locks having a serial code and a combination code associated therewith, the method comprising: linking, by the serialized lock computer system, at least one of a plurality of serial codes with a corresponding combination code; receiving, at the serialized lock computer system, user identity information from a user computer system; validating, at the serialized lock computer system, the user identity information, wherein the user identity information is associated with at least one of the combination locks; receiving, at the serialized lock computer system, a serial code from the user from the user computer system; and securely transmitting, by the serialized lock computer system, to a user account of a user of the user computer system, a message comprising a combination code associated with at least one of the combination locks.