CPC B64F 1/366 (2013.01) [B64F 1/368 (2013.01); G06Q 50/30 (2013.01)] | 30 Claims |
1. A bag-securing method, comprising:
receiving, into a travel carrier system of a travel carrier, traveler information from a traveler who is booking a travel reservation via an online internet interface of a reservation system of the travel carrier;
generating, by the travel carrier, an unlock code for a securing device that is a bag lock associated with a bag of the traveler, the unlock code being based on the traveler information received from the traveler;
storing the unlock code at the travel carrier system;
receiving the bag from the traveler during a check-in process temporally separated from, and at some time after, booking the travel reservation;
checking identification of the traveler to retrieve the unlock code stored for the traveler;
programming the bag lock of the bag using the unlock code to secure the bag lock; and
generating, by the travel carrier system, a bag tag associated with the unlock code for the bag.
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