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Apparatus and method for finding and reporting lost items

  • US 9,665,913 B2
  • Filed: 11/22/2013
  • Issued: 05/30/2017
  • Est. Priority Date: 05/03/2013
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. An Internet-based system for reporting items that were lost during travel and finding such items, the system comprising:

  • a venue data repository having a plurality of venue records, each venue record identifying other venue records of venues through which users travel to or from the respective venue;

    a computer system comprising a server and operative to perform operations comprising;

    receiving from a remote user a request for a lost-item input form to report lost items in association with a venue identified in the request, wherein the lost-item input form corresponds to a route operated by an entity having venue pages, and wherein the route corresponds to a flight route operated by an airline;

    in response to the request, send the lost-item input form to a remote user device, the lost-item input form including pre-populated selectable references to other venues identified in the venue data repository as venues through which users travel to or from the venue identified in the request;

    receive lost item form data describing aspects of the lost item and circumstances under which the lost item was lost, wherein the circumstances identify a plurality of user-selected venues through which the user traveled; and

    store the lost item form data in a lost item data repository.

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