| 摘要 |
The invention provides systems, methods and devices that allow a hotel guest room management system to manage the activation and opening of hotel locks, as well as for managing the data associated with those locks. When implemented as a software application (or “App(s)”), the Apps, typically proprietary to individual hotel companies or hotel management companies, use the invention implemented as a system and preferably enabled as a Software Development Kit (“SDK”). |
| 主权项 |
1. A hotel guest room management system for controlling Near Field Communication (NFC) locks, comprising:
at least a first computing device in communication with a web services network; a database in communication with the first computing device; the first computing device includes a computer-readable storage medium, the computer-readable storage medium comprising at least one programming instruction that, when executed, causes the system to:
receive a reservation for a hotel room from a hotel booking system;store a first guest data set in the database;send a first instruction to a first application programming interface (API), the first API being a short messaging service (SMS) that initiates a first text message that is directed to a first mobile device, the first mobile computing device being associated with the reservation and being in communication with the web services network; the first mobile computing device,
receives the first text message which provides a user the ability to choose to check into the reserved hotel room by using a mobile device check-in service; andupon a user indication that a mobile device check-in service is selected, reporting that user-decision to the web services; in response to the user indication of the selection of a mobile device check-in service on the first mobile device, a front desk App:
receives a notice of the selection of the mobile device check-in service at a front desk web portal; andsends a key request through the web services network to a second API, the second API being associated with the type of near field communication lock used to lock the reserved hotel room; a first digital key is generated by the second API; the second API communicates, through the web services network, the first digital key to the first mobile computing device; and terminating the first digital key. |
