Item identification control method
First Claim
1. A method for identifying and controlling movement of an individual luggage item which is associated with a respective individual purchaser of said luggage item, comprising:
- providing a luggage item having at least one wall and at least one stationary, programmable fingerprint reader installed during luggage construction and permanently disposed therein;
scanning, by a fingerprint reader, individual fingerprints of said individual purchasers of said luggage item at the point of sale, as part of a purchasing activity, electronically sending information regarding each of said individual purchaser fingerprints from said fingerprint scanner to said at least one programmable fingerprint reader of the luggage being purchased and permanently recording the purchaser fingerprint into the fingerprint reader, said fingerprint scanner also providing said information regarding each of said individual purchaser fingerprints to a central processing unit;
storing, by the central processing unit, said information regarding said individual purchaser fingerprints;
retrieving, by a retrieving unit, said information regarding said individual purchaser fingerprints from a central processing unit and said information regarding said individual purchaser fingerprints from said at least one programmable fingerprint reader; and
comparing said information regarding said individual purchaser fingerprints from said central processing unit and said information regarding said individual purchaser fingerprints from said at least one programmable fingerprint reader to ascertain whether said luggage item is properly associated with the correct one of said particular individual purchasers of said luggage item to thereby allow said properly associated luggage item to move from one location to another.
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Abstract
A system and method for identifying and controlling the movement of various items, e.g., suitcases, associated with respective ones of various individuals, e.g., those desiring to travel on a selected means of transportation such as an airline, railway or the like. The system includes a plurality of programmable fingerprint readers each associated with a respective one of the items, a fingerprint scanner for scanning fingerprints from each individual and associating it with one or more of the items, a CPU for receiving readings from each of the item fingerprint readers and information from the scanner, and a retrieving unit (e.g., such as one owned by the transporting party) which retrieves selected ones of the fingerprint readings stored by the CPU for comparing with also retrieved readings from the respective fingerprint readers when the traveling individual presents an item to the transporting party for travel.
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10 Claims
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1. A method for identifying and controlling movement of an individual luggage item which is associated with a respective individual purchaser of said luggage item, comprising:
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providing a luggage item having at least one wall and at least one stationary, programmable fingerprint reader installed during luggage construction and permanently disposed therein; scanning, by a fingerprint reader, individual fingerprints of said individual purchasers of said luggage item at the point of sale, as part of a purchasing activity, electronically sending information regarding each of said individual purchaser fingerprints from said fingerprint scanner to said at least one programmable fingerprint reader of the luggage being purchased and permanently recording the purchaser fingerprint into the fingerprint reader, said fingerprint scanner also providing said information regarding each of said individual purchaser fingerprints to a central processing unit; storing, by the central processing unit, said information regarding said individual purchaser fingerprints; retrieving, by a retrieving unit, said information regarding said individual purchaser fingerprints from a central processing unit and said information regarding said individual purchaser fingerprints from said at least one programmable fingerprint reader; and comparing said information regarding said individual purchaser fingerprints from said central processing unit and said information regarding said individual purchaser fingerprints from said at least one programmable fingerprint reader to ascertain whether said luggage item is properly associated with the correct one of said particular individual purchasers of said luggage item to thereby allow said properly associated luggage item to move from one location to another. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10)
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