Patent ID: 8531290

Claim:
A method for locating pieces of luggage gone astray in a commercial air flight shipment, comprising: the steps of: (i) prior to the delivery, placing in each of said pieces of luggage a mobile unit; (ii) delivering the piece of luggage for being loaded in a commercial airplane; (iii) if one or more of the delivered pieces of luggage fails to arrive to its destination, sending from a remote PC a telephone call to the lost luggage's mobile unit; (iv) once it receives the telephone communication request, urging the mobile unit to send a message containing the data identifying the place where it lies to the remote PC; (v) displaying on the PC screen the data contained in the received message; and (vi) detecting the lost luggage's static or movement status and, if the piece of luggage is in movement or in a first predetermined period right after the end of a movement status, blocking the communications of steps (iii) and (iv).