Data processing: financial – business practice – management – or co – Automated electrical financial or business practice or... – Reservation – check-in – or booking display for reserved space
Patent
1997-07-18
1999-08-24
Stamber, Eric W.
Data processing: financial, business practice, management, or co
Automated electrical financial or business practice or...
Reservation, check-in, or booking display for reserved space
705 13, 235384, 283 23, 283 28, 283 29, 283 32, G05F 1760
Patent
active
059436514
DESCRIPTION:
BRIEF SUMMARY
TECHNICAL FIELD
The present invention relates to an automatic entry card creating system using an airline ticket including a magnetic stripe on which information can be written, an airline ticket issuing apparatus, an automatic entry card creating apparatus, and an airline ticket.
BACKGROUND ARTS
An airline ticket(automated ticket and boarding pass)l which has hitherto been used, is separated along a perforated line 2 as shown in FIG. 19 into a coupon 1a collected by an airline at a boarding gate of an airplane, and a boarding pass 1b handed over to a passenger. Then, all or some items of boarding information about a name of airline, a flight number, a name of departure airport, a name of arrival airport, a via-destination, a fare, a name of passenger, a seat number, a class of seat and a feature of seat, are visually printed on the front surfaces of the coupon 1a and the boarding pass 1b. On the other hand, a continuous magnetic stripe 3 is so formed on the underside (a surface shown in FIG. 19) of the airline ticket as to extend over the coupon 1a and the boarding pass 1b. This magnetic stripe 3 is, as illustrated in FIG. 20, divided into n-lines of tracks in a direction orthogonal to a dotted line 2. The boarding information is all recorded on the respective tracks. On a first track, however, there is written a predetermined item of information which makes sense only when the information is read from a head (on the side of the coupon) to a terminal (on the side of the passenger ticket) of the first track, and the first track is used for judging whether or not the airline ticket has been used. Note that the information thus recorded on the magnetic stripe 3 or signal-form information recordable on the magnetic stripe 3 is hereinafter referred to as "MS data".
In a seat management system using such an airline ticket 1, a passenger at first submits a reservation form in which the boarding information is written to a branch office of the airline or a travel agency, and makes a request for reserving the airline ticket. Then, a person in charge (an operator) in the branch office of the airline or the travel agency inputs the information written in the reservation form by use of an airline ticket issuing apparatus, and communicates with the seat reservation system in the head office of the airline via a communications line, thus executing a process of confirming the reservation of the ticket. Then, the air ticket issuing apparatus, when the reservation is confirmed, issues the airline ticket 1 on the basis of ticket issue data which the seat reservation system notifies. At this time, the MS data are recorded on the air ticket 1 the above-described boarding information is visually printed thereon.
When it becomes predetermined time before a boading time, the passenger submits the airline ticket 1 to a check-in counter of the airline in the airport. A person in charge at the check-in counter reads the boarding information from the magnetic stripe 3 on this airline ticket 1 by using a check-in confirmation apparatus, thus confirming the reservation to the seat reservation system. Then, when finally confirmed, the person in charge returns the airline ticket 1 to the passenger.
When it becomes the boading time, the passenger hands over the airline ticket 1 to the person in charge of the airline at a boarding gate. The person in charge at the boarding gate inserts this airline ticket 1 into a boarding confirmation apparatus. The boarding confirmation apparatus reads the boarding information from the magnetic stripe, and collates it with the boarding information (the data for confirmation) read by the check-in confirmation apparatus, thereby making a boarding confirmation. Then, when the boarding confirmation is completed, the person in charge cuts away the airline ticket 1 along a perforated line 2, and hands over the passenger ticket 1b to the passenger while collecting the coupon 1a. When the airline ticket 1 is thus cut away, it follows that the respective tracks of the magnetic stripe 3 are disconnected half
REFERENCES:
patent: 5832451 (1998-11-01), Flake et al.
Fujitsu Limited
Robinson-Boyce Akiba
Stamber Eric W.
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