tailieunhanh - apple s itravel patent

The size and scope of the business firm and its structure, management, and ownership, broadly analyzed in the theory of the firm. Generally a smaller business is more flexible, while larger businesses, or those with wider ownership or more formal structures, will usually tend to be organized as corporations or (less often) partnerships. In addition, a business that wishes to raise money on a stock market or to be owned by a wide range of people will often be required to adopt a specific legal form to do so | US 20100078475A1 19 United States 12 Patent Application Publication Lin et al. 10 Pub. No. US 2010 0078475 Al 43 Pub. Date Apr. 1 2010 54 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR TRANSPORTATION CHECK-IN 75 Inventors Gloria Lin San Ramon CA US Amir M. Mikhak Cambridge MA US Correspondence Address APPLE INC. c o Fletcher Yoder PC . Box 692289 Houston TX 77269-2289 US 73 Assignee Apple Inc. 21 . 12 286 353 22 Filed Sep. 30 2008 Publication Classification 51 . G06K 5 00 52 . Cl. 235 380 57 ABSTRACT There is provided a method and system for transportation check-in . ticketing and identification via near field communication NFC using a handheld electronic device such as a cellular phone or a personal media player. The handheld device may store and transmit travel reservations and traveler identifications using a travel management application. Various methods may be employed to acquire the reservation and identification information on the handheld device. For example travel reservations may be made via the management application or may be retrieved from an email a website another NFC-enabled device or a carrier-provided confirmation number. User identification may be acquired by scanning a radio frequency identification tag embedded in a government-issued . In another embodiment an . number may be entered via the travel management application and the user s identification information may be downloaded from the issuing authority. Patent Application Publication Apr. 1 2010 Sheet 2 of 24 US 2010 0078475 Al 40 if ravel FIG. 2 56 24 .