Yale Security Inc.

James McCracken

Mark Caterino

Kevin Christopher Kraus

Alicia Waters

Logan Serman

Ronald Unger

Mary Moss

Christi Johnson

A virtual key ring is disclosed. A graphical representation of a key ring or keychain having a plurality of keys is displayed on a computing device, and a pre-determined gesture input from a user indicative of an interaction with the key ring or chain, or one of the keys is received. The wireless operation of a lock can be managed by then accessing stored information associated with a virtual key or the lock in accordance with the pre-determined gesture. Pre-determined gestures can include, for example, movement along a predefined path on a touch screen in order to select a virtual key from among the plurality of virtual keys. The computing device can be a wireless mobile computing device such as a smartphone. The computing device can use any wireless communication technology, NFC and Wi-Fi being examples.

Virtual key ring

Growing community of inventors

Franklin, TN, United States of America

James McCracken