Automated Access Code Retrieval via Proximity Detection

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Solution Overview

Problem

Current methods for automatically retrieving access codes for security devices are cumbersome and time-consuming, particularly for users trying to enter secure areas or facilities, as they often require manual searching through electronic communications.

Innovation Solution

A computer-implemented method using a mobile device to identify security mechanisms based on proximity, analyze historical data to locate access codes, and provide them to the user via notification, leveraging geographical mapping and natural language processing to streamline the access code retrieval process.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Loss of time

If manual searching through electronic communications is used to retrieve access codes, then the user can locate the access code, but the process becomes cumbersome and time-consuming

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvetime to retrieve access codeVSAvoidease of access code retrieval

Core Design Contradiction:

Loss of timeVSEase of operation

Solution Approach 1:

The system performs preliminary actions by proactively detecting when the user is near a secured location using GPS coordinates, before the user even needs to request the access code. Historical communications are pre-analyzed to extract and store access codes associated with specific locations, so that when proximity is detected, the code is immediately available for display without requiring manual search through emails or messages.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #10Preliminary action

2Productivity

If automated retrieval systems are implemented, then the access code retrieval becomes faster, but the system complexity increases

Engineering Contradiction:

Improveaccess code retrieval speedVSAvoidsystem complexity

Core Design Contradiction:

ProductivityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The system introduces an intermediary layer between the user and the access codes stored in historical communications. This intermediary automatically performs NLP analysis on communications, extracts relevant access codes, associates them with GPS coordinates of secured locations, and presents them when the user is detected near those locations. This intermediary handles the complexity of automated analysis, leaving the user with a simple experience of receiving the code without understanding the complex processing behind it.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

Data Source

PatentUS11302129B1Computer automated retrieval of previously known access code(s) for a security device controlling access

Publication Date: 2022.04.12 INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINE CORPORATION

AI summary

Automatic retrieval using an electronic device of a previously known access code for a security device which includes identifying, using a computer, a security mechanism based on a proximity of a user to the security mechanism. The proximity of the user to the security mechanism is determined using location services for a mobile device of the user and first historical data which indicates a location of the security mechanism. Second historical data is analyzed, in response to identifying the security mechanism. An identified access code is selected based on the analysis of the second historical data. The selecting of the identified access code includes a reference relationship between the reference content, the security mechanism, and the access code. The identified access code is provided to the mobile device of the user for communication to the user, for the user to enter the code on the security mechanism.