JP6904605B2 - Electronic locker key transmission and unlocking method - Google Patents

Description

The present invention relates to a kind of electronic locker unlocking method, and more particularly to a kind of electronic locker key transmission and unlocking method.

For the convenience of passengers, electronic lockers or general mechanical lockers are installed at transportation nodes such as railway stations or MRT stations so that luggage or goods can be temporarily stored in a safe place and taken out later. After the user puts the goods in the locker, the locker can be opened again when necessary in the form of a password setting or an actual key or an electronic key, and the goods deposited in the locker can be taken out.

The above-mentioned locker or electronic locker is used not only for depositing passenger's luggage, but also for putting the item in the locker to give something to another person, and then the other person puts the item in the locker at the locker or the electronic locker. There is also a way to send the actual key to the other party so that it can be taken out, but it takes time and effort to pass the actual key. Also, since the locker itself can be opened by anyone with an accurate key, there is a risk that the deposit will be stolen if you lose the key or leak your PIN, regardless of yourself or the person you plan to use. Therefore, further improvements are required to improve the safety in use.

Since the identity of the unlocker cannot be identified with a conventional locker, it is necessary to send the actual key when handing something to another person, except for safety concerns, which requires extra work. Therefore, the present invention improves the safety and convenience of depositing and taking out articles in a locker in a form in which users of an application installed on a wireless device transmit electronic keys to each other.

For the above purposes, the present invention provides a kind of electronic locker key transmission and unlocking method, the steps of which method are:

The storage net service defines a user and a recipient, the storage net service provides an application of a wireless device, the user and the recipient each have an identification code (ID), and an electronic locker is at least QR. It has a code image containing a code (registered trademark), and the code image is scanned by the wireless device to establish a connection with the wireless device in which the electronic locker executes the application, and the user sets the article. The electronic locker storage step to put in the electronic locker and

The user's wireless device executes the application to connect to the electronic locker, obtains an electronic key for unlocking the electronic locker from the electronic locker, locks the electronic locker, and locks the electronic locker. Is an electronic key acquisition step of encoding the electronic key, the user's identification code, and the recipient's identification code selected by the user as a key file.

The recipient's wireless device receives the key file transmitted by the user's wireless device, and the recipient's wireless device executes the application to decrypt the key file and identify itself. Compare whether the code matches the recipient's identification code in the key file, and if so, when the recipient's wireless device executes the application to connect to the electronic locker, said It includes an electronic locker unlocking step in which unlocking of the electronic locker is permitted using the electronic key by the recipient's wireless device.

Preferably, the recipient's identification code of the present invention is the recipient's mobile number, MAC address, serial number or identifiable image.

Further, in the electronic locker loading step of the present invention, the electronic locker establishes a connection with a wireless device that executes the application by means of near field communication, Bluetooth®, wireless communication or image scanning. ..

Furthermore, the recipient and the user of the present invention are the same person.

Further, in the electronic locker unlocking step of the present invention, in the step of selecting the recipient in the application executed on the wireless device possessed by the user and transmitting the electronic key to unlock the electronic locker. The application transmits the key file to the recipient's wireless device over an internet connection and executes the application on the recipient's wireless device.

Preferably, in the electronic key acquisition step of the present invention, after the user's wireless device executes the application to acquire the electronic key, the user's wireless device executes the application and the storage net. By feeding back to the service, the storage net service starts timing, and in the electronic locker unlocking step, the recipient's wireless device unlocks the electronic locker using the electronic key, and at the same time, the storage net. The timekeeping is stopped by feeding back to the service, and the storage net service charges the usage fee to either the user or the recipient according to the time of the timekeeping.

According to the method of the present invention, after the user deposits the article in the electronic locker, the electronic locker is later unlocked using the electronic key only when the legitimate recipient acquires the key file. Is allowed to be taken out.

The effect of the present invention is that the electronic key that unlocks the electronic locker can be transmitted by the Internet or other wireless transmission method so that it can be used by a recipient at a long distance. The operation of taking out by the recipient can be conveniently performed. Further, after the electronic key acquired by the user is encoded as a key file and then transmitted, the wireless device of the person who receives the key file must be able to execute the application and is a legitimate recipient. Only when the identification is passed, the application is approved and it is confirmed that the user is eligible to use the electronic key, the electronic locker can be unlocked and the item can be taken out, so that the electronic key can be transmitted and used. The safety can be improved.

It is a flowchart which shows the method by one preferred Example of this invention. It is a schematic diagram which shows the case of depositing the article by one preferable Example of this invention. It is the schematic which shows the case of taking out the article by one preferable Example of this invention.

Preferred examples illustrated will be described in detail below so that the technical features and practical effects of the present invention can be easily understood and implemented based on the contents of the specification.

Preferred embodiments of the present invention shown in FIGS. 1 to 3 provide a key transmission and unlocking method for a type of electronic locker, the steps of which method are:

Step to put things in the electronic locker: The storage net service A provides the application B used for the storage net service A, and the actual electronic locker C is in a convenience store or in a public transportation station such as a railway station or an MRT station. The electronic locker C has the function of establishing a connection with a wireless device that executes the application B by means of short-range wireless communication, Bluetooth®, wireless communication or image scanning. The electronic locker C according to the present embodiment has a code image including at least a QR code (registered trademark), and the code image is scanned by the wireless device to establish a connection with the electronic locker C. As a wireless device (any mobile device or wearable device compatible with the Internet) according to the following embodiment, a mobile phone will be described as an example.

The storage net service A has a plurality of users, and the maximum number of users can be hundreds of thousands to tens of millions. These users include at least the user 10 and the recipient 20, each user has an identification code A1, and each identification code A1 includes a user number given by the storage net service A and each of them. It may be the user's own mobile number, MAC address, serial number or identifiable image. When the user 10 uses the electronic locker C of the storage net service A, it is when the article 30 is put into the electronic locker C.

Step of acquiring the electronic key: After the user 10 puts the article 30 in the electronic locker C, the mobile phone of the user 10 executes the application B to connect to the electronic locker C, and the user One is selected as the recipient 20 of the article 30. At this time, the electronic locker C transmits the electronic key C1 that can be used for unlocking the electronic locker C to the application B executed by the mobile phone of the user 10, and then locks the electronic locker C. After the application B of the user's 10 mobile phones has acquired the electronic key C1 from the electronic locker C, the storage room via the Internet indicates that the user who uses the electronic locker C this time is the user 10. Feed back to net service A and start timing. Then, the mobile phone of the user 10 executes the application B and keys the electronic key C1, the identification code A1 of the user 10, and the identification code A1 of the recipient 20 selected by the user 10. Encode as file B1. Among them, the identification code A1 of the recipient 20 is the user number of the recipient 20 or the mobile number of the recipient 20, and the identification code A1 of the recipient 20 according to the present embodiment is a mobile number. This will be described as an example.

Step of transmitting an electronic key to unlock the electronic locker: The application B of the mobile phone of the user 10 uses a communication means such as the Internet, short-range wireless communication, Bluetooth (registered trademark), or the like to send the key file B1 to the recipient. It can be transmitted to 20 mobile phones. Then, the mobile phone of the recipient 20 executes the application B to receive the key file B1, and decrypts the key file B1 to decode the electronic key C1, the identification code A1 of the user 10, and the recipient. At the same time as obtaining the information of the identification code A1 of 20, it is compared whether or not the identification code A1 of the mobile phone of the recipient 20 matches the identification code A1 of the recipient 20 in the key file B1, that is, both. Whether the mobile numbers of the files match. If they match, when the mobile phone of the recipient 20 executes the application B to connect to the electronic locker C, the electronic locker C is unlocked by the mobile phone of the recipient 20 using the electronic key C1. Is allowed.

Finally, the recipient 20 executes the application B from the mobile phone to connect to the electronic locker C, unlocks the electronic locker C using the electronic key C1, and takes out the article 30 at the same time. The application B of the recipient 20's mobile phone feeds back to the storage net service A to stop the timekeeping. The storage net service A is based on the time taken, that is, the time from when the user 10 deposits the goods to when the recipient 20 takes out the goods, and the user 10 is set according to the setting when the user deposits the goods. Alternatively, the usage fee is charged to one of the recipients 20. The usage fee is charged by the user 10 or the recipient 20 withdrawing from the credit card registered in the warehouse net service A, or by the amount charged by the user 10 or the recipient 20 to the warehouse net service A. be able to.

In the present invention, in addition to the above embodiment, in the step of transmitting the electronic key to unlock the electronic locker, the application B of the mobile phone of the user 10 directly presses the electronic key C1 via an Internet connection. Instead of transmitting to the application B of the recipient 20's mobile phone, the electronic key C1 is transmitted to the application B of the recipient 20's mobile phone by a method via the Internet or Bluetooth (registered trademark) by mail or message. Further, the user 10 records the electronic key C1 on the flash drive or the portable HDD, and directly passes the flash drive or the portable HDD on which the electronic key C1 is recorded to the recipient 20 to receive the electronic key C1. It can also be read into the mobile phone of the person 20. Further, in the above preferred embodiment, the wireless device that executes the application B may be a tablet, a smart watch, or the like instead of a mobile phone, and in practice, the user 10 and the recipient 20 are the same person. You can.

Although preferred embodiments of the present invention have been disclosed above, various modifications and modifications that do not limit the scope claimed by the present invention and do not deviate from the gist and scope of the present invention are described in the present invention. It goes without saying that it belongs to the category of.

10 User 20 Recipient 30 Goods A Warehouse Net Service A1 Identification Code (ID)
B Application B1 Key File C Electronic Locker C1 Electronic Key

Claims (6)

It is a key transmission and unlocking method of the electronic locker.
The storage net service defines a user and a recipient, the storage net service provides an application of a wireless device, the user and the recipient each have an identification code (ID), and an electronic locker is at least QR. It has a code image containing a code (registered trademark), and the code image is scanned by the wireless device to establish a connection with the wireless device in which the electronic locker executes the application, and the user sets the article. Putting in the electronic locker, the step of putting in the electronic locker,
The user's wireless device executes the application to connect to the electronic locker, obtains an electronic key for unlocking the electronic locker from the electronic locker, locks the electronic locker, and locks the electronic locker. Is an electronic key acquisition step of encoding the electronic key, the user's identification code, and the recipient's identification code selected by the user as a key file.
The recipient's wireless device receives the key file transmitted by the user's wireless device, and the recipient's wireless device executes the application to decrypt the key file and identify itself. Compare whether the code matches the recipient's identity code in the key file, and if so, when the recipient's wireless device executes the application to connect to the electronic locker, said An electronic locker unlocking step in which the recipient's wireless device is allowed to unlock the electronic locker using the electronic key, and
A method of key transmission and unlocking of an electronic locker, which comprises. The method for key transmission and unlocking of an electronic locker according to claim 1, wherein the identification code of the recipient is a mobile number, MAC address, serial number or an identifiable image of the recipient. .. In the electronic locker loading step, the electronic locker is characterized by establishing a connection with a wireless device that executes the application by means of near field communication, Bluetooth®, wireless communication or image scanning. The method for transmitting and unlocking the key of the electronic locker according to claim 2. The key transmission and unlocking method for an electronic locker according to claim 1, wherein the recipient and the user are the same person. The electronic locker unlocking step is characterized in that the application transmits the key file to the recipient's wireless device via an internet connection and executes the application on the recipient's wireless device. The method for transmitting and unlocking the key of the electronic locker according to claim 3. In the electronic key acquisition step, after the user's wireless device executes the application to acquire the electronic key, the user's wireless device executes the application and feeds back to the storage net service. , The storage net service starts timekeeping, and the recipient's wireless device unlocks the electronic locker with the electronic key and feeds back to the storage net service to stop the time and the storage net service. The key transmission and unlocking method of the electronic locker according to any one of claims 1 to 4, wherein the usage fee is charged to either the user or the recipient according to the time of the clock.

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