De-Personalized Security Data Sharing for Cross-Border Screening
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing baggage handling systems in travel carriers are inefficient, costly, and resource-intensive, particularly in high-volume scenarios like cruise ships, due to the need for manual luggage tagging and potential data entry errors, which can lead to delays and increased operational costs.
Innovation Solution
A system and method for obtaining and converting security screening images and baggage data into structured data format for secure sharing across different security authorities, enabling real-time security screening and automated luggage handling processes, including real-time display of screening results and re-screening instructions.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Productivity
If manual luggage tagging and data entry are used, then flexibility and adaptability are maintained, but productivity decreases and loss of time increases
Solution Approach 1:
The system performs preliminary actions by capturing security screening images and extracting baggage data at the origin airport before the luggage reaches the border crossing airport. This advance processing allows the data to be ready for transmission and verification, eliminating the need for manual data entry at later stages and reducing overall processing time.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent introduces an intermediary automated system that acts as a bridge between security screening imaging machines and baggage handling systems. This intermediary automatically extracts data from images, transmits it across borders, and integrates it with baggage tracking systems, eliminating the need for manual intervention while maintaining system compatibility.
2Productivity
If automated data processing is implemented, then productivity increases, but device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The system employs universal data formats and communication protocols that allow the automated processing system to work with multiple types of security screening imaging machines and baggage handling systems from different vendors. This multi-functionality approach standardizes interactions and reduces the complexity that would otherwise arise from integrating diverse systems.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent creates digital copies of baggage data from security screening images and transmits these copies across borders. Instead of physically moving or manually copying data, the system uses digital replication and transmission, which simplifies the complexity of data management while maintaining accuracy and enabling automated processing.
3Adaptability or versatility
If data is transmitted across different security authorities, then adaptability increases, but loss of information increases
Solution Approach 1:
The system transforms baggage data into standardized parameters and formats that are compatible across different security authorities and border crossing systems. By changing the data representation into universal parameters, the system maintains data accuracy while enabling seamless transmission and verification across international borders.
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AI summary
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.