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Systems and methods for security checkpoint condition information and sharing

  • US 9,516,460 B2
  • Filed: 09/10/2012
  • Issued: 12/06/2016
  • Est. Priority Date: 03/28/2008
  • Status: Expired due to Fees
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1. A system, comprising:

  • a user location engine configured to identify an initial location of a first digital device associated with a first user, the initial location corresponding to an entry point of a queue leading to a scanner in a security checkpoint in a secure screening environment of a secure facility;

    a checkpoint identification engine configured to provide, in response to the user location engine identifying the initial location of the first digital device, a checkpoint identifier to a first mobile application providing a first user interface in a first web browser or a first container application executing on the first digital device, the checkpoint identifier identifying the security checkpoint, and the checkpoint identifier being from a list of checkpoint identifiers associated with the secure facility, the checkpoint identifier being provided from a comparison of the initial location of the first user to a list of checkpoint locations on a digital airport map;

    a presence notification engine configured to receive a selection of the checkpoint identifier, the selection being based on user-input by the first user into the first mobile application, and the selection indicating the first user confirmed that the first user is at the initial location;

    a checkpoint information engine configured to receive user-generated information regarding the security checkpoint, the user-generated information being generated by first user input by the first user into the first mobile application, the user-generated information providing a description of an attribute of the secure screening environment;

    a condition crowdsourcing engine configured to integrate the user-generated information into crowdsourced condition data associated with the security checkpoint, the crowdsourced condition data providing a crowdsourced measure of a wait time for passengers to pass through the queue to the scanner in the security checkpoint, and the crowdsourced condition data being based on second user input by a second user who previously passed through the queue to the scanner in the security checkpoint, the second user input being received by a second mobile application providing a second user interface in a second web browser or a second container application executing on a second digital device associated with the second user;

    an interuser connection engine configured to provide the crowdsourced condition data to a third mobile application executing on a third digital device associated with a third user, thereby providing to the third mobile application a crowdsourced wait time corresponding to a wait time for passing through the queue to the scanner in the security checkpoint;

    a user information rating engine configured to provide to the third mobile application a quality rating of the user-generated information; and

    a security checkpoint gameplay engine configured to;

    assign a check-in state in the first mobile application corresponding to the first user selecting the checkpoint identifier;

    assign the first user points in response to assigning the check-in state, andprovide profile information enabling offering some of the profile information to an airport or a security agency.

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