Patent ID: 7801833
Filing Date: 2010-09-21
Classification: G06Q

Abstract:
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.