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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 26, 2023
Filed:
Apr. 28, 2021
Scooterbug, Inc., Orlando, FL (US);
Mark Christopher Schmidt, Windermere, FL (US);
Wesley Edward Swogger, Fairfax Station, VA (US);
Edward Joel Rodriguez, Kissimmee, FL (US);
Thomas Dwayne Taylor, Kissimmee, FL (US);
Michael Buchoff Buchoff, Winter Springs, FL (US);
Sowmya Balda, Orlando, FL (US);
Kyle Clarennce West, Saint Cloud, FL (US);
Brian William Rood, Orlando, FL (US);
Tomas Rodriguez, Winter Park, FL (US);
SCOOTERBUG, INC., Orlando, FL (US);
Abstract
A method of contact-less access control to a device available for rental, access and use in an environment, by scanning multi-level machine-readable codes displayed in the environment using web-enabled mobile phones wirelessly connected to a wireless access control network. To practice a facility-level, site-level access and/or device-level access control method, a web-enabled mobile phone is used to scan facility-level, site-level and/or device-level machine-readable codes in the environment, and in response, rental transaction identifiers are stored within the cache on the web-enabled mobile phone scanning the machine-readable code. Each rental transaction identifier identifies the web-enabled mobile phone that is linked to a specific device rental transaction. After renting the selected device at either a facility-level, site-level or device-level location in the environment, the web-enabled mobile phone is used to scan the device-level machine-readable code on the rented device. The web-enabled mobile phone uses the rental transaction identifier stored within its cache to automatically enable access to the rented device at the selected site for use in the environment. While not required by the access methods, the user may set a passcode for entry into the system using the web-enabled mobile phone, to further constrain access to the rented device.