Method for depositing and retrieving prohibited items or products

• US 20090187271A1
• Filed: 01/21/2009
• Published: 07/23/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 01/22/2008
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Locktec GmbH
• Original Assignee: Locktec GmbH
• Inventors: Heinlein, Werner, Clausen, Lukas, Clausen, Olaf
• Application Number:
  US12/321,441
• Publication Number:
  US 20090187271A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 700/215
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/08 Logistics, e.g. warehousing, loading or distribution; Inventory or stock management

Abstract

A method for not having to permanently relinquish prohibited items or products objected to at security controls. The prohibited items are instead provided with an identifying means, placed in a collecting container and stored by a storage service. The person participating in the system can, via the obtained identifying means, later claim the stored item at the storage service by way of the Internet and arrange for dispatch to an address to be indicated.

Claims

1. A method of depositing and retrieving products or items which are prohibited from being carried in hand baggage, comprising the following method steps:

a) providing a two-part identification, a first part having at least one first identifying means, and a second part having at least one second identifying means and a communications address of a storage service;

b) placing said first part directly on a prohibited item, or placing or inserting the item in a container having said two-part label or identification thereon, wherein the second identifying means is applied to the second part in a numerically or alphanumerically coded or uncoded form and is readable, and the first identification means is applied in barcode and/or numerically and/or alphanumerically coded readable form and/or encoded in another manner not corresponding with the first identifying means;

c) retaining the second part of the identification by the person handing over the product and/or the item;

d) storing the item in a store of a storage service;

f) uploading a claim page from the computer of the storage service by way of an electronic communications system with a display apparatus with connected input means by a person who is in possession of the second identifying means;

g) communicating the second identifying means by entry in a writable field in a page shown on a display of the display apparatus and transmitting a request to the storage service for forwarding the item to a specific delivery address, by the person retaining the second part of the identification; and

f) forwarding the stored item to the delivery address.

2. The method according to claim 1, further comprising:

intermediately storing the item in a collecting container at a receiving point and taking the collecting container to the store of the storage service;

registering at least the first identifying means by the storage service;

classifying and storing the item or container in the store according to defined criteria; and

carrying out a recognition comparison of the first identifying means with the second identifying means, or a comparison of an association of the two identifying means, by the computer of the storage service.

3. The method according to claim 2, wherein the first identifying means is automatically read out in the store by a reader or detector and stored in a databank of the computer of the storage service, and wherein the second identifying means is checked by the computer to see if the item is located in a store of the storage service under the same or an associated first identifying means.

4. The method according to claim 1, wherein the two parts of the identification are placed in an area of the item or container to lie one below, alongside, above or on the other and adjacent or offset in terms of spatial position and wherein the second part is separable from the first part, and wherein the parts are directly printable on an envelope, a padded envelope, a dispatch bag or dispatch box.

5. The method according to claim 2, wherein code numbers are provided which enable automatic access to a specific computer of a databank or of a server when read out in the store or which, when entered by the claimant, address the specific computer, the databank or the server to automatically secure display of a claim page by way of the communications system.

6. The method according to claim 1, wherein at least one of the first and second identifying means additionally contains data about the size of the container, or data about the weight or type of the item.

7. The method according to claim 1, wherein at least the first identifying means contains additional tracking information which can be linked with or contains a tracking and trace number of a parcel delivery service.

8. The method according to claim 1, wherein a receiving point is recorded in coded form to be concealed, or is visible or readable on at least the first identification part.

9. The method according to claim 4, wherein the second part is detachable from the first part, or is separable from the first part along a fold line.

10. The method according to claim 8, wherein the first or second identifying means includes the coded receiving point, or the receiving point is assigned to first or second identifying means by a databank of the server.

11. The method according to claim 1, wherein the first identifying means is stored on at least the first part in an RFID-memory which is read out by a reader of the storage service, or the first identifying means contains codes whose validity is checked by a computer by way of a databank.

12. The method according to claim 1, wherein the second identifying means is printed in readable form with numerical characters and/or letters on the second label part or identification part behind a scratch layer or detachable cover.

13. The method according to claim 1, wherein the second identifying means is additionally stored in the second part in an RFID chip which is read out by a reader connectible with a computer.

14. The method according to claim 1, wherein the identification is printed out at a receiving point by a printer, or is preprinted and withdrawable from a dispenser or a roll, wherein at least the first part is adhered or attached or fastened to the item or the container, and wherein the second part is printed as a separable tag.

15. The method according to claim 14, wherein the identification is transmitted to a server of the storage service during printing.

16. The method according to claim 1, wherein contact information of the storage service is recorded as correspondence address at least on the second part of the identification.

17. The method according to claim 1, wherein a claim for the item is carried out by way of a website or several websites having entry fields for entry of the identifying means, in which the identifying means of the second identification part is entered, and having an address field for entering the delivery address.

18. The method according to claim 17, wherein an additional field is included on the retrieval page for entry of data for completion of payment of a handling, storage and dispatch fee.

19. The method according to claim 17, wherein an entry field for desired delivery dates or for a desired mode of dispatch is provided.

20. The method according to claim 17, wherein the storage service transmits a dispatch confirmation to the customer.