Patent ID: 8496164

Claim:
A low-cost display unit that displays travel-related information to a traveler in a public travel-related area, comprising: a communication interface that facilitates wirelessly receiving first travel-related information from a plurality of travel-related information sources by the low-cost display unit; a machine-readable marking reader that determines a presence of a travel document having one or more machine readable markings, scans the one or more machine-readable markings, and decodes the scanned one or more machine-readable markings, the one or more machine-readable markings containing encoded second traveled-related information, the second travel-related information pertaining specifically to a traveler identified by the travel document; and a display control unit that selects elements of the first travel-related information to be displayed on the low cost display unit, receives the second travel-related information contained in the decoded one or more machine-readable markings from the machine-readable marking reader, selects the elements of the first travel-related information that are related to the second travel-related information, and displays elements of the second travel-related information contained in the decoded one or more machine-readable markings and the selected elements of the first-travel related information to the traveler on the low-cost display unit, the low-cost display unit being locally controlled by a remote control unit in close proximity the low-cost display unit by which a user pre-selects one or more of: the elements of the first travel-related information to be displayed on the low-cost display unit, the elements of the first travel-related information that are related to the second travel-related information, and display parameters for displaying the second travel-related information contained in the decoded one or more machine-readable markings and the selected elements of the first-travel related information to the traveler.