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System and method for matching passengers and their baggage

  • US 6,158,658 A
  • Filed: 08/27/1997
  • Issued: 12/12/2000
  • Est. Priority Date: 08/27/1997
  • Status: Expired due to Fees
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1. A method for identifying and facilitating removal from a commercial carrier baggage checked by passengers during a check-in process who fail to board the commercial carrier, comprising:

  • receiving information identifying a passenger checking baggage to be stowed on the commercial carrier;

    generating a passenger identifier uniquely identifying the passenger, the passenger identifier comprising an image of the passenger and passenger identification data;

    storing the generated passenger identifier;

    generating a boarding pass bearing the passenger identifier corresponding to the passenger in a machine-readable format;

    generating a baggage code during the check-in process encoding an image of the baggage checked by the passenger, the baggage code enabling recovery and display of the image of the checked bag;

    correlating the passenger identifier with the baggage code;

    reading the passenger identifier from the boarding pass of passengers who board the commercial carrier;

    storing the boarded passenger identifiers;

    comparing the stored boarded passenger identifiers against the stored generated passenger identifiers to identify the passenger identifier of any non-boarding passenger who checked baggage but did not board the commercial carrier;

    recovering the image of baggage from baggage codes correlated to passenger identifier of each such non-boarding passenger; and

    using the recovered image or images, visually identifying such non-boarding passengers'"'"' checked baggage to facilitate removal of such baggage.

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