System and method for de-personalized security data file sharing with screening image

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-12430952-B2
Application number	US-202418912954-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Oct 11, 2024
Priority date	Feb 1, 2023
Publication date	Sep 30, 2025
Grant date	Sep 30, 2025

Abstract

Provided is a system and method for de-personalizing security data file sharing, the method including: obtaining baggage data generated from a baggage handling system for a checked-in luggage item of a passenger; retrieving from a secure database a security screening image (SSI) representative of contents of the checked-in luggage item; converting the SSI and the baggage data into SSI file sharing data for a security screening tool; transmitting the SSI file sharing data over a network to a secure system associated with a border crossing airport, wherein the SSI file sharing data is used by a second security authority to perform a security screening process on the checked-in luggage item using the security screening tool; receiving a first screening message with a result of the security screening process; and causing the result to be displayed by a display, wherein the result is one of: a first result representative of cleared security screening; or a second result representative of failed security screening, wherein the passenger or the checked-in luggage item that failed the security screening are flagged for further security inspection.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A method comprising:
obtaining, by at least one of at least one processor, baggage data generated from at least one networked scanning device of a baggage handling system, the baggage data comprising an International Air Transportation Association (IATA) license plate for a checked-in luggage item of a passenger being checked-in with an originating airline;
retrieving from a secure database stored in a non-transitory secure memory device, by at least one of the at least one processor, a security screening image (SSI) representative of contents within the checked-in luggage item that is linked to the IATA license plate, wherein the SSI is generated by a security screening imaging machine in an originating country and based on technology standards of a first level governed by a first security authority of the originating country;
converting, by at least one of the at least one processor, the SSI and the baggage data into SSI file sharing data of a structured data format for a security screening tool;
transmitting, through a first network interface in communication with at least one of the at least one processor and a first communication network, the SSI file sharing data over the first communication network to a secure non-transitory memory system associated with a border crossing airport in a second country, wherein the SSI file sharing data is configured to be used by a second security authority to perform a security screening process on the checked-in luggage item using the security screening tool, and wherein the second security authority is different from the first security authority;
receiving from the second security authority, through a second network interface in communication with at least one of the at least one processor and a second communication network, a first screening message associated with a result of the security screening process, wherein the result of the security screening process is based on the SSI file sharing data; and
causing, by at least one of the at least one processor, the result of the security screening process included in the first screening message to be displayed by a display device in near real-time, wherein the result of the security screening process comprises one of:
a first result representative of cleared security screening by the second security authority; or
a second result representative of failed security screening by the second security authority, wherein one or more of the passenger or the checked-in luggage item that failed the security screening are flagged for further security inspection before being permitted to leave the border crossing airport or to transfer to a flight departing the border crossing airport.

2. The method of claim 1 , further comprising:
based on the first screening message comprising the second result, communicating, by a third network interface in communication with at least one of the at least one processor and a third communication network, a second screening message to a baggage scanning system of an identified airline, wherein the second screening message is configured to cause the checked-in luggage item to be re-screened.

3. The method of claim 2 , further comprising:
based on receiving the first screening message with the second result, obtaining, by at least one of the at least one processor, an IATA license plate for one or more additional checked-in luggage items of the passenger,
wherein the communicating, by the third network interface in communication with at least one of the at least one processor and the third communication network, comprises:
communicating the IATA license plate for the one or more additional checked-in luggage items of the passenger in one or more additional second screening messages to the baggage scanning system of the identified airline, wherein the one or more additional second screening messages are configured to cause the one or more additional checked-in luggage items to be re-screened.

4. The method of claim 1 , wherein the SSI file sharing data comprises at least one of a flight number, an airline code, a unique passenger identifier (UPID) required for communicating with countries, a passport document number, a passenger name, a passenger name record (PNR) locator, or a pseudo identifier (PID).

5. The method of claim 1 , wherein the converting the SSI and the baggage data into the SSI file sharing data further comprises:
generating, by at least one of the at least one processor, a message identifier number comprising a sequence of digits; and
associating, by at least one of the at least one processor, the SSI file sharing data with the message identifier by configuring the SSI file sharing data to be accessed by the security screening tool.

6. The method of claim 1 , further comprising:
analyzing, by at least one of the at least one processor, the SSI for at least one mode of travel different from the originating airline using a machine learning algorithm;
determining, by at least one of the at least one processor and based on the analysis of the SSI, whether the contents within the checked-in luggage item are approved for travel on at least one vehicle of travel associated with the at least one mode of travel; and
generating, by at least one of the at least one processor, a second screening message representative of a result of the determining whether the contents within the checked-in luggage item are cleared for travel on at least one vehicle of the at least one mode of travel.

7. The method of claim 6 , further comprising:
causing, by at least one of the at least one processor, a printer device to print a marker comprising information representative of the result of the determining whether the contents within the checked-in luggage item are cleared for travel on at least one vehicle of the at least one mode of travel.

8. The method of claim 1 , further comprising:
i) generating, by at least one of the at least one processor, at least one manifest listing a plurality of passengers, wherein each of the at least one manifest comprises a passenger manifest data record having manifest data fields for each passenger listed therein;
ii) monitoring, by a passenger matching and bag release system, at least one computer system associated with the second security authority, wherein the second security authority processes the plurality of passengers for border crossing at the border crossing airport; and
iii) detecting, by the passenger matching and bag release system during the monitoring of the at least one computer system, a clearance processing event of a passenger record, created by the at least one computer system, by matching the passenger record with a respective passenger manifest data record.

9. The method of claim 8 ,
wherein the manifest data fields comprise at least one of a unique passenger identifier of each respective passenger and a unique baggage identifier of each checked-in luggage item of each respective passenger, and
wherein the method further comprises:
iv) based on detecting the clearance processing event, communicating, through a third network interface in communication with the passenger matching and bag release system and a third communication network, a baggage release message to a baggage scanning system of an identified airline, a computing device of a baggage handler, or a baggage handling system; and
v) repeating ii)-iv) for each of the plurality of passengers in the at least one manifest.

10. The method of claim 1 , further comprising:
determining, by at least one of the at least one processor, whether a missing link exists between the IATA license plate and the SSI.

11. The method of claim 10 , wherein t

Assignees

• Mateer Craig

Inventors

• Mateer Craig

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