Guest Tek Interactive Entertainment Ltd.

Ellison W Bryksa

Andrew Terrance MacMillan

Lea Lorenzo

Tsu-Kang Peng

Andrew T Macmillan

An interface gateway facilitates communication between a first device and a second device serving a hospitality establishment. The first device is one of a property management system (PMS) and a guest service device, and the second device is the other of the property management system (PMS) and the guest service device. One or more communication ports perform data communications with the first device and the second device. One or more processors receive a message from the first device, determine that the message is in a first format, determine that the message is applicable to the second device, determine that the second device supports a second format, convert the message to the second format, store the message in a transmit queue with an indication of whether a confirmation reply is expected from the second device, and send the message in the second format to the second device.

Interface gateway and method of facilitating communication between a property management system and a guest service device

A hotspot provides an open wireless network and a secure wireless network. The open wireless network has no network-level encryption and allows open association therewith. The secure wireless network employs network-level encryption and requires authentication of a received access credential from a client device before allowing association therewith. A system for authorizing the client device for secured access at the hotspot includes an access controller configured to establish an encrypted connection between the client device and a login portal of the hotspot over the open wireless network, and to store a user-specific access credential transmitted via the encrypted connection as a valid access credential in a credential database. The credential database is accessed by wireless access points of the hotspot to authenticate the received access credential from the client device in response to a request from the client device to associate with the secure wireless network.

Enabling secured wireless access using user-specific access credential for secure SSID

An interface gateway interfaces between a first device and a second device serving a hospitality establishment. The first device is one of a property management system (PMS) and a guest service device, and the second device is the other of the property management system (PMS) and the guest service device. One or more communication ports perform data communications with the first device and the second device. One or more processors receive a message from the first device, determine that the message is in a first format, convert the message from the first format to an internal data structure, parse the message in the internal data structure to determine that the message is applicable to the second device, determine that the second device supports a second format, convert the message from the internal data structure to the second format, and send the message in the second format to the second device.

Interface gateway and method of interfacing a property management system with a guest service device

Enabling secured wireless access at hotspot by providing user-specific access credential for secure SSID during sign-up process conducted over open wireless network

Authorizing secured wireless access at hotspot according to user-specific access credential received from client device during predetermined sign-up process

Central interface gateway and method of interfacing a property management system with a guest service device via the internet

Re-login time duration allowing hotspot user to sign up for additional access time without disconnecting from secured wireless network

Authorizing secured wireless access at hotspot having open wireless network and secure wireless network

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Calgary, Canada

Ellison W Bryksa