Set for automatically reading an information and for remote control or monitoring system comprising at least such a set

• US 20050093681A1
• Filed: 06/21/2001
• Published: 05/05/2005
• Est. Priority Date: 06/22/2000
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Bouygues Telecom (Bouygues SA)
• Original Assignee: Bouygues Telecom (Bouygues SA)
• Inventors: Masclet, Sophie, Gaillotte, Nicolas
• Application Number:
  US10/312,116
• Publication Number:
  US 20050093681A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 340/10.42
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 20/3278 RFID or NFC payments by means of M-devices
• CPC Class Codes: G07B 15/02 taking into account a variable factor such as distance or time, e.g. for passenger transport, parking systems or car rental systems G07B15/06 takes precedence; taximeters G07B13/00; parking meters per se G07F17/24; car rental systems per se G07B15/00
• CPC Class Codes: G07F 17/24 for parking meters

Abstract

The invention concerns a set for automatically reading an information carried by data storage means adapted to be read, comprising a reading module connected to a mobile telephone terminal, the mobile telephone terminal comprising means for triggering reading by said module of the information carried by the data storage means, the reading module including means for transmitting to the mobile telephone terminal a signal bearing the read information. The information carried by the storage means comprises a code identifying a mobile element whereon said storage means are recorded and the mobile telephone terminal comprises means for triggering and managing a sequence of operations comprising successively: reading said code by the reading module; transmitting said code, by said telephone terminal, to a remote management server. The invention is applicable to remote monitoring or control, in particular remote control of parking fee payment.

Claims

1. A system for automatically reading data stored in a data storage device that can be read, the data stored in the storage device identifying a moving object to which the said storage device is attached, the said system incorporating a read module connected to a mobile telephone terminal, the said read module incorporating means for reading the data stored in the storage device, characterised in that the mobile telephone terminal incorporates means for initiating reading by the said module of the data stored in the storage device, the read module incorporating means for transmitting a signal carrying the data read to the mobile telephone terminal.

2. A system in accordance with claim 1, characterised in that the data stored in the data storage device incorporates an identification code identifying the moving object to which the said data storage device is attached and in that the mobile telephone terminal incorporates means for initiating and managing a sequence of operations including in order:

reading of the said code by the read module,

transmission of the said code by the said telephone terminal to a remote management server.

3. A system in accordance with claim 2, characterised in that the said sequence of operations also includes:

transmission to the user of the telephone terminal of a message transmitted in response by the management server to the said terminal.

4. A system in accordance with one of the preceding claims, characterised in that the read module is mechanically fixed to the mobile telephone terminal.

5. A system in accordance with claim 4, characterised in that the mechanical fixing is removable.

6. A system in accordance with one of the preceding claims, characterised in that the telephone terminal incorporates an operating system that displays on a screen of the said terminal the data read by the read module and/or a message transmitted in response by the said database to the said terminal.

7. A system in accordance with one of the preceding claims, characterised in that the read module and the data storage device incorporate a device permitting the said module to record the data in the said storage device.

11. A read module in accordance with claim 9 or 10, characterised in that it incorporates means for mechanically fixing it to the mobile telephone terminal of a system in accordance with one of claims 1 to 8.

8. A system for the remote control of the payment of parking fees, incorporating a system for automatically reading data stored in the storage device that can be read, data stored in the storage device incorporating a vehicle identification code, the said system incorporating a read module connected to a mobile telephone terminal, the said read module incorporating means for reading the identification code stored in the storage device, characterised in that the mobile telephone terminal incorporates means for initiating the reading by the said module of the code stored in the storage device, the said system also incorporating a management server for remote payment to which the code is transmitted by the telephone terminal.

9. A read module incorporating means for reading identification data stored in the storage device, the said module incorporating means for connection to a telephone terminal, the means for reading the data stored in the storage device being able to be triggered by a mobile telephone terminal connected to the said module, the said module also incorporating means for transmitting the data read to the telephone terminal.

10. A read module in accordance with claim 9, characterised in that it incorporates firstly a transmit/receive device that is able to transmit an interrogation signal to the transponder type data storage device and receive the signal transmitted in response by the latter and secondly a device that is connected to the transmit/receive device to handle the exchanges between the said module and the mobile telephone terminal.

12. A mobile telephone terminal, incorporating means for connecting it to a read module that is able to read the identification data stored in the storage device, characterised in that it incorporates means for initiating reading by the said module of the data stored in such storage devices and means for receiving the data thus read by the said module which is transmitted to it.

13. A terminal in accordance with claim 12, characterised in that the said sequence of operations also includes:

transmission to the user of the telephone terminal of a message transmitted in response by the management server to the said terminal,

14. A system for monitoring moving objects or for their remote control, incorporating a remote management server, a device that can be attached to moving objects to permit their identification, means for automatically reading a code stored in this identification device and remotely interrogating the management server, characterised in that the device incorporates a code reading module connected to a mobile telephone terminal, the code reading module incorporating means for transmitting to the mobile telephone terminal a read code, the said mobile telephone terminal incorporating means for initiating and managing a sequence of operations including in order:

reading by the said module of the code stored in the identification device,

transmission of the said code to the management server by the said telephone terminal,

transmission to the user of the telephone terminal of a message transmitted in response by the said database to the said terminal.