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Starter-interrupt device incorporating global positioning system functionality

  • US 10,576,927 B2
  • Filed: 10/06/2015
  • Issued: 03/03/2020
  • Est. Priority Date: 02/07/2006
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A method comprising:

  • monitoring payment status associated with a vehicle;

    detecting a non-payment event by a purchaser of the vehicle;

    enabling terms of a geographic region at an operations center remote from a vehicle, wherein enabling of the terms of the geographic region is responsive to the non-payment event by the purchaser of the vehicle, and wherein the terms of the geographic region set a geographic region beyond which the vehicle is not permitted to travel;

    sending the terms of the geographic region to an onboard device coupled to the vehicle;

    alerting an operator of the vehicle that the terms of the geographic region are enabled;

    disabling the vehicle when the vehicle travels outside the geographic region and the terms of the geographic region are enabled; and

    disabling the terms of the geographic region in response to a payment event by the purchaser of the vehicle.

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