Patent ID: 7840010

Claim:
In an interactive system for managing access via a communications network by one or more users to multiple secured Locations comprising in combination: a plurality of entry control Devices used in gaining access to said Locations by multiple users with multiple keys assigned in a plurality of levels of a hierarchy to said Locations, wherein the plurality of levels includes at least first and second levels, wherein first and second keys assigned to the first level are configured to respectively gain access through first and second subsets of the plurality of entry control Devices, and wherein a third key assigned to the second level is configured to gain access through both of the first and second subsets of the plurality of entry control Devices; a searchable database configured to store information on said keys and said entry control Devices, and Software stored on a readable medium and configured to produce a graphical hierarchy report on the keys depicting the hierarchy of the keys and their respectively assigned Locations and/or entry control Devices, wherein the graphical hierarchy report produced by the Software includes a tree that depicts the first, second and third keys and the first and second subsets of the plurality of entry control Devices, wherein the first subset of the plurality of entry control Devices are depicted in the tree at a lower level than the first key to indicate to a user that the first key is used to gain access through the first subset of the plurality of entry control Devices, the second subset of the plurality of entry control Devices are depicted in the tree at a lower level than the second key to indicate to the user that the second key is used to gain access through the second subset of the plurality of entry control Devices, and the first and second keys are depicted in the tree at a lower level than the third key to indicate to the user that the third key is used to gain access through both of the first and second subsets of the plurality of entry control Devices; wherein the plurality of levels further includes a third level, wherein a fourth key assigned to the third level is configured to gain access through both of the first and second subsets of the plurality of entry control Devices to which the third key is assigned, and to a third subset of the plurality of entry control Devices, wherein the tree in the graphical hierarchy report further depicts the fourth key and the third subset of the plurality of entry control Devices, and wherein the tree in the graphical hierarchy report further depicts the fourth key at a higher level than the first, second and third keys to indicate to the user that the fourth key is used to gain access through all of the first, second and third subsets of the plurality of entry control Devices.