Patent ID: 6158658
Filing Date: 2000-12-12
Classification: B64F,G07B

Abstract:
A method for identifying and facilitating removal from a commercial carrier baggage checked by passengers during a check-in process who fail to board the commercial carrier, comprising:receiving information identifying a passenger checking baggage to be stowed on the commercial carrier;generating a passenger identifier uniquely identifying the passenger, the passenger identifier comprising an image of the passenger and passenger identification data;storing the generated passenger identifier;generating a boarding pass bearing the passenger identifier corresponding to the passenger in a machine-readable format;generating a baggage code during the check-in process encoding an image of the baggage checked by the passenger, the baggage code enabling recovery and display of the image of the checked bag;correlating the passenger identifier with the baggage code;reading the passenger identifier from the boarding pass of passengers who board the commercial carrier;storing the boarded passenger identifiers;comparing the stored boarded passenger identifiers against the stored generated passenger identifiers to identify the passenger identifier of any non-boarding passenger who checked baggage but did not board the commercial carrier;recovering the image of baggage from baggage codes correlated to passenger identifier of each such non-boarding passenger; andusing the recovered image or images, visually identifying such non-boarding passengers' checked baggage to facilitate removal of such baggage.