Patent ID: 6044353
Filing Date: 2000-03-28
Classification: G06Q,G07B

Abstract:
A baggage claim security system for airline travel, comprising:a central storage for storing a passenger record including flight reservation information, personal identification information and baggage identifying information for a passenger for which a flight reservation has been made and who has checked baggage at the airline terminal from which a flight departs; andbaggage claim equipment located at an airline terminal where a flight arrives for verifying a right of a person to leave the airline terminal with a bag that has arrived on a flight, including:(a) means for reading a personal identification card provided by a person to access said central storage to obtain a passenger record identified by personal identification information read from said card;(b) identifying information reading means for inductively reading identifying information from an RF contact-free identification baggage tag on a bag carried by said person and for comparing said read identifying information with identifying information stored in the passenger record accessed from said central storage as said bag is being carried past said reading means; and(c) means for allowing said person to leave the airline terminal with said bag only if said information reading means detects coincidence between the identifying information read from said baggage tag and identifying information in said passenger record accessed from said central storage.