Method and apparatus for customer/passenger wayfinding using boarding pass barcode scanning capabilities on low-cost display devices

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United States of America Patent

PATENT NO 8849560
APP PUB NO 20110288768A1
SERIAL NO

13097718

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A low-cost display unit that displays wayfinding information to a traveler in a public travel-related area is disclosed and may include a communication interface that facilitates receiving of travel-related information, a machine-readable marking reader that determines the presence of a travel document having one or more machine readable markings, scans the one or more machine-readable markings, and decodes the scanned one or more machine-readable markings, wherein the one or more machine-readable markings contain encoded traveled-related information pertaining to the traveler; and a display control unit that receives the decoded one or more machine-readable marking, determines the traveler's destination in the public travel-related area from the decoded one or more machine-readable markings, determines the path that the traveler should travel to reach the destination, and displays the determined path to the traveler on the low-cost display unit.

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ARINC INCORPORATED2551 RIVA ROAD ANNAPOLIS MD 21401

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Inventor Name Address # of filed Patents Total Citations
Cooper,, Jr James Gary Annapolis, US 9 185
Stefani, Rolf R West River, US 14 230

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