US 12,205,425 B2
System of issuing a wireless key for reservation
Shih-Kang Chou, Taipei (TW)
Filed by Shih-Kang Chou, Taipei (TW)
Filed on Oct. 4, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/959,403.
Application 17/959,403 is a continuation in part of application No. 16/810,104, filed on Mar. 5, 2020, abandoned.
Claims priority of application No. 108120063 (TW), filed on Jun. 11, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2023/0024957 A1, Jan. 26, 2023
Int. Cl. G07C 9/00 (2020.01); G06Q 10/02 (2012.01)
CPC G07C 9/00904 (2013.01) [G06Q 10/02 (2013.01); G07C 2009/00769 (2013.01)] 10 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A system of issuing a wireless key for reservation of a room in a hotel, the system comprising:
a reservation website showing at least one room or a room type which is allowed to be accepted as a reservation in the hotel;
a hotel server settled with the reservation website, the hotel server connected to and exchanging information with the reservation website through the internet;
an access point of the hotel connected to the hotel server through a signal connection;
an electronic lock corresponding to the room;
a mobile device connected with the reservation website through the internet, wherein the mobile device submits the reservation on the reservation website;
a reservation voucher and an order are formed by the reservation website after the reservation website receives the reservation, wherein the reservation website has a capability of sending the reservation voucher to the mobile device, and sending the order to the hotel server of the hotel, the hotel server has a capability of executing a check-in procedure after receiving the order, the mobile device has a capability of sending the reservation voucher to the hotel server though the access point when the mobile device is entered into a sensing range of the access point, and
an electronic key and a detecting software are issued to the mobile device through the access point after the reservation voucher is confirmed by the hotel server, wherein the electronic key is applied to unlock the electronic lock corresponding to the room, and the detecting software is applied to detect and upgrade a software of the electronic lock,
wherein the detecting software is sensed by the electronic lock through a wireless signal connection, and has a capability of upgrading a level of the electronic lock after confirming the level of the electronic lock;
wherein a detecting result is formed and stored in the mobile device after the detecting software detected and upgraded the software of the electronic lock; and
wherein the mobile device has a capability of sending the detecting result to the hotel server though the access point when the mobile device is entered into the sensing range.