Hub Key Service for Coordinated Access Management
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing technologies lack a comprehensive solution for coordinated access management across multiple devices, particularly for secure and controlled access to buildings, vehicles, and media devices, which is essential for modern, feature-rich mobile devices.
Innovation Solution
A hub key service is implemented, utilizing a hub manager to generate electronic keys with configurable access permissions, allowing controlled access through mobile devices, which can be modified for time restrictions, monitoring, and sharing with non-hub members, leveraging communication interfaces and network services for secure key dissemination.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If electronic keys are generated and distributed to multiple devices for access control, then ease of operation is improved, but security and control over access permissions become more complex to manage
Solution Approach 1:
The hub manager acts as an intermediary between the physical access control system and multiple user devices. It centralizes the generation, distribution, and management of electronic keys, allowing users to conveniently access controlled locations through their devices while the hub manager maintains centralized control over permission issuance, modification, and revocation, thus resolving the contradiction between ease of operation and management complexity
Solution Approach 2:
The system dynamically changes access permission parameters (such as time-based restrictions, location-specific access, and user-specific rights) through the hub manager. This allows flexible control over electronic key validity and scope without requiring complex manual configuration on each device, improving ease of operation while maintaining centralized control capability
2Adaptability or versatility
If access permissions are made flexible and configurable for different users, then adaptability is improved, but system complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The hub manager serves as an intermediary that handles all complex permission configuration tasks centrally. Users can request different types of access permissions through simple device interactions, while the hub manager processes the requests, applies appropriate permission settings, and manages the electronic keys accordingly, thus achieving high adaptability without increasing user-facing system complexity
Solution Approach 2:
The hub manager provides a universal platform that handles multiple types of access control scenarios (different users, different locations, different time periods, different permission levels) through a single system. This multi-functional approach allows the system to be highly adaptable to various access control needs while maintaining a unified, manageable architecture rather than requiring separate complex systems for each scenario
Data Source
AI summary
In embodiments of a hub key service, a device includes a communication interface for communication coordination with one or more associated devices of the device, and the associated devices correspond to hub members. A hub manager is implemented to generate an electronic key that includes access permissions, which are configurable to enable controlled access for the hub members, such as to a building, vehicle, media device, or location. The hub manager can then correlate the electronic key with the device to enable access to the building, vehicle, media device, or location with the device utilized as the electronic key.