Luggage contents recommendations and tracking

US9454728B1 · kind B1 · utility

Assignee

• International Business Machines Corporation · US

Inventors

• Michael Bender · Rye Brook, US
• Rhonda L. Childress · Austin, US
• David Bruce Kumhyr · Austin, US
• Michael J. Spisak · East Northport, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Feb 25, 2016
• Grant date: Sep 27, 2016
• Expiry date: Feb 25, 2036

Classification

• Technology area (CPC G): Physics
• CPC primary: G08B21/24
• WIPO field: IT methods for management
• WIPO sector: Electrical engineering

Abstract

In an approach for suggesting an item to pack, a processor receives an indication that a user is packing a first item of luggage, wherein the indication includes information about a trip. A processor generates a packing list based on the information about the trip. A processor receives a request to link the first item of luggage and a second item of luggage for the trip. A processor links the first and second items of luggage such that contents of each item of luggage are jointly compared to the packing list. A processor receives, via a short-range point-to-point communication reader of the first item of luggage, a signal from a short-range point-to-point communication device operably affixed to a first item. A processor identifies the first item based on the signal. A processor determines that the first item is an item of the packing list.