Patent ID: 8618909

Claim:
An apparatus for controlling a passenger boarding sequence through a boarding gate comprising: a) a plurality of queue control gates for controlling a set of passengers waiting at said plurality of queue control gates where each queue control gate of said plurality of queue control gates further comprises: (1) a passenger information scanner: (2) a proceed indicator which directs a passenger waiting at said queue control gate to proceed to said boarding gate, b) a controller in communication with each said queue control gate for controlling said set of passengers where said set of passengers is determined by which passengers have elected to enter said plurality of queue control gates and have their passenger information scanned by said passenger information scanner and where said controller is programmed with an algorithm that uses said passenger information communicated from said passenger information scanners to determine seat assignment information and where said algorithm uses said seat assignment information and said passenger information to control said proceed indicators and by so doing controls which passenger of said set of passengers waiting in a leading position at each of said plurality of queue control gates will proceed to said boarding gate.