US 11,941,928 B2
Mobile device notification via access control device
Nadeem Shaikh, Hyderabad (IN); Ramesh Lingala, Hyderabad (IN); Avineet Nanda, Hyderabad (IN); and Adam Kuenzi, Silverton, OR (US)
Filed by Carrier Corporation, Palm Beach Gardens, FL (US)
Filed on Oct. 5, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/449,958.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/198,347, filed on Oct. 13, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2022/0114848 A1, Apr. 14, 2022
Int. Cl. G07C 9/00 (2020.01); G07C 9/20 (2020.01)
CPC G07C 9/00309 (2013.01) [G07C 9/20 (2020.01); G07C 2009/00769 (2013.01)] 19 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An access control device comprising:
a detection sensor configured to detect a status event;
a communication module in wireless communication with a mobile device, the communication module configured to wirelessly receive an advertising signal from the mobile device;
a processor in communication with at least one of the detection sensor and the communication module, the processor configured to
responsive to detection of a status event, determine whether a distance between the mobile device and the access control device is greater than a threshold, wherein the processor is configured to
responsive to determining that the distance is greater than the threshold, trigger a notification; and
a lock actuator operatively connected to the processor, the processor configured to maintain the lock actuator in an unlocked position responsive to the distance being greater than the threshold.