Method of selecting and storing airline ticket data
OwnerStanley Petersoninventor
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Abstract
A method is provided for receiving a data stream of an airline ticketing reservations computer, striping-away data bits included for the ordering and identifying and reading and writing of the data stream on magnetic media and selecting and converting the remaining data into multi-dimensional symbology or bar code for printing onto airline ticket and/or boarding documents.
Claims11
A method of receiving a data stream for recording onto magnetic media from a central reservation computer offering passenger air travel information to multiple airlines and for selecting and converting said data stream into multi-dimensional symbology for printing onto airline documents comprising the steps of:
- receiving from a shared central reservation computer a data stream containing data for recording onto a magnetic media,
- selecting from said data stream at least a portion of said data for recording onto said magnetic media to provide a selected data stream,
- converting said selected data stream into a multi-dimensional symbology data set, and
- printing said multi-dimensional symbology data set onto an airline document.
A method of receiving a data stream formatted for recording onto magnetic stripe media from a shared central reservation computer offering passenger air travel information to multiple airlines and selecting and converting said data stream into multi-dimensional symbology for printing onto airline documents comprising the steps of:
- receiving from a shared central reservation computer a data stream containing formatting codes to allow recording of said data stream onto a magnetic stripe media,
- selecting from said data stream at least a portion of said data for recording onto said magnetic media to provide a selected data stream,
- identifying said formatting codes of said selected data stream,
- removing said formatting codes from said selected data stream to provide second data stream,
- converting said second data stream into a multi-dimensional symbology data set, and
- printing said multi-dimensional symbology data set onto an airline document to provide an airline document containing a printed multi-dimensional symbology data set.
A printer for receiving a data stream containing print data and magnetically recordable data said data stream for printing and recording onto airline tickets and boarding documents the printer comprising:
- a print head for printing alpha-numeric text,
- a print head for printing multi-dimensional symbology, and
- a processor to select a magnetically recordable datum from the data stream and to convert said magnetically recordable datum into a multi-dimensional symbology computer code and to direct said print head for printing multi-dimensional symbology to print said multi-dimensional symbology computer code onto an airline document.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.