Patent ID: 8089340

Claim:
A vehicle screening system for screening vehicles and occupants for entrance to a secured facility: a processor; an interface that communicates with said processor, wherein said interface displays identification information extracted from a vehicle occupant associated with a vehicle for processing by said processor; a drive-up electronic kiosk associated with said interface and said processor, wherein said drive-up electronic kiosk facilitates the handling and management of said identification information extracted from said vehicle occupant in order to permit or deny said vehicle occupant and said vehicle entry to a secured facility through a security gate and thereby confirm the identity of said vehicle occupant at a safe distance from said vehicle to reduce a risk of exposure to said vehicle; a car list screen for displaying information within said interface regarding a plurality of vehicles in line with respect to security gate, wherein said car list screen permits a selection of a vehicle designated for secondary screening by a secondary screener from among said plurality of vehicles wherein said secondary screener selects a vehicle from a prioritized list of vehicles, acquires identity information from an occupant of said vehicle, and searches a vehicle watch list for greater information granularity with respect to said identification information gathered from said selected vehicle and said vehicle occupant; and a car information screen that displays said identification information within said interface concerning said selected vehicle and which permits said secondary screener to add and modify information concerning said selected vehicle.