Universal Key Recognition System for Multi-Access Authentication
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Solution Overview
Problem
Users often carry and remember multiple keys, tags, or codes for various access control systems, making it cumbersome and prone to errors, leading to unauthorized access or denial of access.
Innovation Solution
A system that uses a single key to authenticate users across multiple access points by receiving electronic signal data from the key, comparing it with stored data, and allowing access if it matches, utilizing a processor, controller, and machine-readable storage medium with computer program code to manage access control.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If users carry multiple keys, tags or badges for different access control systems, then access to various secure locations is enabled, but the system becomes cumbersome and increases the risk of errors
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements a universal key system where a single key contains multiple unique identifiers that can authenticate the user across different access control systems. The key is designed to work with multiple locks, security systems, and access control points, eliminating the need for separate keys for each system while maintaining full access control functionality.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent combines multiple unique identifiers and authentication capabilities into a single physical key. By merging multiple access control functions into one key, the system reduces the number of separate authentication devices users must carry while preserving the ability to access multiple secure locations.
2Adaptability or versatility
If users remember multiple pass codes for different systems, then authentication across multiple access control systems is enabled, but errors in recollection occur leading to denied access
Solution Approach 1:
The patent replaces the need to remember pass codes with a physical key that contains embedded unique identifiers. Instead of relying on human memory of multiple codes, the system uses a tangible key object that automatically provides the authentication information, eliminating recollection errors while maintaining authentication capability across multiple systems.
3Ease of operation
If a single key is used to authenticate with multiple access control systems, then the number of keys to carry is reduced, but the system complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent designs a universal key with embedded multiple unique identifiers that can interface with different access control systems. The key itself is simple in form but contains complex authentication data, allowing it to work across multiple systems without requiring the user to understand or manage the underlying complexity.
Solution Approach 2:
The universal key acts as an intermediary between the user and multiple access control systems. It translates the user's authentication request into the appropriate format for each system, shielding the user from system complexity while enabling broad compatibility.
4Measurement precision
If the system learns the unique aspects of a user key, then authentication accuracy is improved, but the processing requirements increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements a learning phase where the system预先 captures and stores the unique identifier pattern of the user's key. This preliminary action creates a reference template that enables rapid, accurate comparison during subsequent authentication attempts, improving recognition accuracy while reducing the processing burden during actual access attempts.
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AI summary
A system and method are disclosed for using a single key to authenticate a user with respect to multiple user access points and to allow a single access point to authenticate multiple keys having different physical characteristics. The system may comprise an access control system that includes an insertion receptacle for receiving a physical key, and a translation device for observing the physical characteristics of the key and translating those characteristics into electrical signals. In a learning mode, the electrical signals are transmitted to a processor and stored in memory. In a verification mode, the electrical signals are transmitted to the processor and compared with the previously-stored signals. If the processor concludes that the signals match the signals stored in memory, then the processor instructs a lock actuation mechanism to actuate an access control device to allow the user access to a location. The translation device may comprise a laser light reader, a piezoelectric crystal, a variable resistor, an electromagnet, or an image acquisition device. A method of using the system is also disclosed.