Patents by Inventor Glenn M. Kerr

Glenn M. Kerr has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Passenger screening system
    Patent number: 9723010
    Abstract: A system, method and program product for providing passenger screening. A method is disclosed that includes: providing a third party service to collect profile information from a user and provide the user with a unique ID; submitting the unique ID from the user to a reservation system when the user books a reservation; passing the unique ID from the reservation system to a government agency; submitting the unique ID from the government agency to the third party service and returning associated profile information to the government agency; checking the associated profile information against a watch list within the government agency and generating a screening level for the user; and communicating the screening level to a screening agent.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 9, 2008
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2017
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventor: Glenn M. Kerr
  • PASSENGER SCREENING SYSTEM
    Publication number: 20090256675
    Abstract: A system, method and program product for providing passenger screening. A method is disclosed that includes: providing a third party service to collect profile information from a user and provide the user with a unique ID; submitting the unique ID from the user to a reservation system when the user books a reservation; passing the unique ID from the reservation system to a government agency; submitting the unique ID from the government agency to the third party service and returning associated profile information to the government agency; checking the associated profile information against a watch list within the government agency and generating a screening level for the user; and communicating the screening level to a screening agent.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 9, 2008
    Publication date: October 15, 2009
    Inventor: Glenn M. Kerr