PASSENGER SCREENING SYSTEM

• US 20090256675A1
• Filed: 04/09/2008
• Published: 10/15/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 04/09/2008
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Kyndryl Incorporated (Kyndryl Holdings, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Inventors: Kerr, Glenn M.
• Granted Patent: US 9,723,010 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 340/5.540
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 21/33 using certificates
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/02 Reservations, e.g. for tickets, services or events
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 63/102 Entity profiles

Abstract

A system, method and program product for providing passenger screening. A method is disclosed that includes: providing a third party service to collect profile information from a user and provide the user with a unique ID; submitting the unique ID from the user to a reservation system when the user books a reservation; passing the unique ID from the reservation system to a government agency; submitting the unique ID from the government agency to the third party service and returning associated profile information to the government agency; checking the associated profile information against a watch list within the government agency and generating a screening level for the user; and communicating the screening level to a screening agent.

Claims

1. A method for screening passengers, comprising:

providing a third party service to collect profile information from a user and provide the user with a unique ID;

submitting the unique ID from the user to a reservation system when the user books a reservation;

passing the unique ID from the reservation system to an agency;

submitting the unique ID from the agency to the third party service and returning associated profile information to the agency;

checking the associated profile information against a watch list within the agency and generating a screening level for the user; and

communicating the screening level to a screening agent.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the reservation system includes an airline reservation system.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the profile information includes a name and a date of birth.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the profile information includes biometric data.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein the screening level is printed on a boarding pass.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein the agency is a government agency.

7. A computer readable medium having a program product for screening airline passengers, comprising:

program code for collecting profile information from a user and for providing the user with a unique ID, wherein the unique ID can be presented to an airline reservation system when the user books a reservation; and

program code that provides profile information to a government controlled watch list system in response to an inputted unique ID obtained from the airline reservation system.

8. The computer readable medium of claim 7, wherein the profile information includes a name and a date of birth.

9. The computer readable medium of claim 7, wherein the profile information includes biometric information.

10. The computer readable medium of claim 7, further comprising program code that provides profile information the airline reservation system in response to an inputted unique ID.

11. A system for screening passengers, comprising:

a traveler profile system having a registration system for collecting profile information from a user and providing the user with a unique ID; and

a reservation system for creating travel reservations, wherein the reservation system includes;

an input for receiving the unique ID;

and a communication service for passing the unique ID to a watch list service and receiving a screening level for the user;

wherein the traveler profile system further includes a data retrieval system for providing profile information for the user to the watch list service in response to obtaining the unique ID from the watch list service.

12. The system of claim 11, wherein the traveler profile system further includes a profile management system for allowing the user to manage profile information.

13. The system of claim 11, wherein the reservation system includes an airline reservation system.

14. The system of claim 11, wherein the reservation system further includes an identity confirmation system that can submit the unique ID to the traveler profile system and obtain profile information of the user.

15. The system of claim 11, wherein the reservation system further includes a boarding pass generation system that can print the screening level on a boarding pass.

16. The system of claim 15, wherein the screening level is encoded.

17. The system of claim 11, wherein the profile information includes a name and a date of birth.

18. The system of claim 11, wherein the profile information includes biometric information.

19. The system of claim 11, wherein the profile information includes an address and names of family members.

20. The system of claim 11, wherein the watch list service includes a government watch list service.

21. A method for deploying a system for screening passengers, comprising:

providing a computer infrastructure being operable to;

collect profile information from a user and for providing the user with a unique ID, wherein the unique ID can be presented to an airline reservation system when the user books a reservation; and

provide profile information to a government controlled watch list system in response to an inputted unique ID obtained from the airline reservation system.