System and method for airplane security / service / maintenance management
OwnerJiang Wuinventor
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Abstract
A system and method provides overall security, service, and maintenance management for airlines. The system intends to reinforce national security by installing safeguard on-board computer system on every commercial airplane, maximize customer confidence and satisfaction by providing scalable security/service management, communicate with FAA, FBI, or CIA systems by using new telecommunication technology, and Interact with Apollo, Saber and other airline legacy systems by providing individualized interfaces. The system also helps flight attendants to have better passenger services, and helps mechanics to have better aircraft maintenance.
Claims18
An airline security, service, and maintenance management system comprising:
- airplane on-board system
- airport subsystem
- airlines/FAA control center subsystem
18 A method of improved passenger reservation, ticking, check-in and boarding, comprising the step of:
- accepting passenger's reservations to create a plurality of passenger account records on airline's legacy system, each record including passenger's general information;
- issuing passengers tickets, assigning passenger security ranking levels, checking FBI/CAI records if necessary;
- handling passengers check in, trying to detect any suspicion, checking FBI/CAI records if necessary, adjusting passenger security ranking levels if necessary, taking passengers' biometrics information, issuing smart card that containing passengers' biometrics, general and flight information, and creating a plurality of passenger check-in records on airline's legacy system;
- allowing passengers boarding, checking smart card's biometrics information with passengers, check smart card's flight information with the flight;
- creating a plurality of passenger records on said server on airplane;
- comparing all boarding records with check-in information from front counter to decide a departure.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.