Method and system for baggage check-in
OwnerCraig Mateerinventor
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Abstract
The disclosure includes a method and system for checking in baggage of a passenger. The method includes electronically acquiring, by at least one electronic acquiring device, an originating hardcopy bag tag identifier (OP-BTI) associated with or printed on a printed bag tag from an originating airline travel carrier that is on a luggage item of a passenger. This creates a digital BTI data record linked to the airline travel carrier. The method includes utilizing, by at least one processor, the OP-BTI as a unique identifier to query a database to retrieve return flight data of the passenger. The method includes checking in, by the at least one processor, each luggage item for the passenger for the return flight with a return flight travel carrier identified in the retrieved return flight data.
Claims20
A method comprising:
- electronically acquiring, by at least one electronic acquiring device, an originating hardcopy bag tag identifier (OP-BTI) associated with or printed on a printed bag tag from an originating airline travel carrier that is on a luggage item of a passenger booked on a return flight to create a digital bag tag identifier (BTI) data record linked to the originating airline travel carrier;
- utilizing, by at least one processor, the OP-BTI as a unique identifier to query a database to retrieve return flight data of the passenger;
- and
- checking in, by the at least one processor, each luggage item for the passenger for a return flight with a return flight travel carrier identified in the retrieved return flight data.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.