Patent attributes
An electronic storage system is provided. The system includes a housing, securable units within the housing, a kiosk to assign securable units to users and to provide the users with access credentials for accessing assigned securable units, and user portals within the housing and separate from the kiosk. Each user portal permits access to one or more of the securable units in accordance with access credentials entered into the portal. Each user portal is also operable to allow users to transfer rentals of assigned securable devices to other electronic storage systems. The system also permits access to assigned securable devices in accordance with access credentials received via text or SMS messages or via applications executing on a computer, NFC device, or smart device, such as a smart phone or tablet.
