Method for checking toll transactions and components therefor
First Claim
1. A method for checking toll transactions, produced from position notifications of a mobile phone connected via a mobile network to a transaction server of a road toll system, with the aid of a network of distributed toll beacons, which can communicate via short-range radio with on-board units of passing vehicles and are connected to the transaction server, comprising:
- carrying a mobile phone and an on-board unit on a vehicle;
generating a session identifier, exchanging the session identifier between the mobile phone and the on-board unit and transmitting the session identifier to a transaction server, wherein the session identifier is unique in the road toll system and is generated by one of the mobile phone or the on-board unit;
starting a first session for communication in the mobile phone, which first session is identified within the mobile phone by said session identifier, and starting a second session for communication in the on-board unit, which second session is identified within the on-board unit by the same said session identifier;
during the first session, producing position notifications in the mobile phone via a satellite receiver of the mobile phone and sending the position notifications with the session identifier to the transaction server in order to produce toll transactions under said session identifier in the transaction server; and
during the second session, when the on-board unit passes a toll beacon, performing at least one of;
receiving, by the on-board unit, a beacon identifier from the toll beacon, storing the beacon identifier in a first beacon log created for the session identifier in the on-board unit, and transmitting the first beacon log with the session identifier via the mobile phone to the transaction server, ortransmitting the session identifier from the on-board unit to the toll beacon, the session identifier being transmitted with a beacon identifier from the toll beacon to the transaction server, and the beacon identifier being stored in a second beacon log created for the session identifier in the transaction server;
the transaction server being configured to double-check the toll transactions produced under the session identifier with at least one of the first beacon log or the second beacon log created for the session identifier.
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Abstract
The subject matter disclosed herein relates to a method for checking toll transactions, produced from position notifications of a mobile phone connected via a mobile network to a transaction server, with the aid of a network of distributed toll beacons, which can communicate via short-range radio with on-board units of passing vehicles and are connected to the transaction server. To this end, a interoperable multi-functional OBU is created that is formed from a GNSS- and NFC-enabled mobile phone on the one hand and an NFC- and DSRC-enabled OBU on the other hand, which exchange data concerning a session identifier (SID) via their common NFC interface, which session identifier forms a link between the infrastructureless and the infrastructure-bound billing functions of the multi-functional OBU. The disclosed subject matter also relates to a toll beacon and a transaction server for same.
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12 Claims
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1. A method for checking toll transactions, produced from position notifications of a mobile phone connected via a mobile network to a transaction server of a road toll system, with the aid of a network of distributed toll beacons, which can communicate via short-range radio with on-board units of passing vehicles and are connected to the transaction server, comprising:
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carrying a mobile phone and an on-board unit on a vehicle; generating a session identifier, exchanging the session identifier between the mobile phone and the on-board unit and transmitting the session identifier to a transaction server, wherein the session identifier is unique in the road toll system and is generated by one of the mobile phone or the on-board unit; starting a first session for communication in the mobile phone, which first session is identified within the mobile phone by said session identifier, and starting a second session for communication in the on-board unit, which second session is identified within the on-board unit by the same said session identifier; during the first session, producing position notifications in the mobile phone via a satellite receiver of the mobile phone and sending the position notifications with the session identifier to the transaction server in order to produce toll transactions under said session identifier in the transaction server; and during the second session, when the on-board unit passes a toll beacon, performing at least one of; receiving, by the on-board unit, a beacon identifier from the toll beacon, storing the beacon identifier in a first beacon log created for the session identifier in the on-board unit, and transmitting the first beacon log with the session identifier via the mobile phone to the transaction server, or transmitting the session identifier from the on-board unit to the toll beacon, the session identifier being transmitted with a beacon identifier from the toll beacon to the transaction server, and the beacon identifier being stored in a second beacon log created for the session identifier in the transaction server; the transaction server being configured to double-check the toll transactions produced under the session identifier with at least one of the first beacon log or the second beacon log created for the session identifier. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8)
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9. A vehicle-based arrangement, comprising:
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a mobile phone with a satellite receiver for position determination and a mobile communications module for sending position notifications generated via the satellite receiver via a mobile network to a transaction server of a road toll system; and an on-board unit with a short-range transceiver for radio communication with a toll beacon, wherein the mobile phone and the on-board unit are configured to exchange a session identifier via a common radio interface, which session identifier is used by the mobile phone to identify a first session for communication in the mobile phone during which first session position notifications are sent together with the session identifier via the mobile network, and which session identifier is also used by the on-board unit to identify a second session for communication in the on-board unit during which second session the session identifier is sent in a radio communication with the toll beacon, wherein the session identifier is unique in the road toll system and is generated by one of the mobile phone or the on-board unit. - View Dependent Claims (10, 11, 12)
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