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A system and method for enhancing passenger security in the travel industry by matching passengers with their baggage through storage of images of passengers and their baggage and other textual data in computer memory and in printed codes which may be on passenger baggage, a boarding pass, a positiv

A system and method for enhancing passenger security in the travel industry by matching passengers with their baggage through storage of images of passengers and their baggage and other textual data in computer memory and in printed codes which may be on passenger baggage, a boarding pass, a positive passenger bag identifier, and a passenger identification card. The codes on boarding passes are scanned at the boarding gate before passengers may board to check whether the passenger image recovered from the code matches that of the passenger attempting to board. The boarding gate scan also generates a passenger manifest which, when compared to the list of passengers who checked baggage, identifies passengers who checked baggage but did not board. Positive passenger baggage match identifiers are generated associating passengers and the coded image of the baggage checked by the passenger. The positive passenger baggage matching identifiers corresponding to the unboarded passengers may be identified, thereby permitting recovery of an image of the unboarded passengers' baggage. The baggage may then be identified visually and removed or inspected prior to departure of the commercial carrier.

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[ What is claimed is:] [1.] A method for identifying and facilitating removal from a commercial carrier baggage checked by passengers during a check-in process who fail to board the commercial carrier, comprising:receiving information identifying a passenger checking baggage to be stowed on the comm

[ What is claimed is:] [1.] A method for identifying and facilitating removal from a commercial carrier baggage checked by passengers during a check-in process who fail to board the commercial carrier, comprising:receiving information identifying a passenger checking baggage to be stowed on the commercial carrier;generating a passenger identifier uniquely identifying the passenger, the passenger identifier comprising an image of the passenger and passenger identification data;storing the generated passenger identifier;generating a boarding pass bearing the passenger identifier corresponding to the passenger in a machine-readable format;generating a baggage code during the check-in process encoding an image of the baggage checked by the passenger, the baggage code enabling recovery and display of the image of the checked bag;correlating the passenger identifier with the baggage code;reading the passenger identifier from the boarding pass of passengers who board the commercial carrier;storing the boarded passenger identifiers;comparing the stored boarded passenger identifiers against the stored generated passenger identifiers to identify the passenger identifier of any non-boarding passenger who checked baggage but did not board the commercial carrier;recovering the image of baggage from baggage codes correlated to passenger identifier of each such non-boarding passenger; andusing the recovered image or images, visually identifying such non-boarding passengers' checked baggage to facilitate removal of such baggage.