Interjurisdictional consumption analysis in transportation applications
First Claim
1. A system for allocating fuel purchases for a vehicle based upon travel by the vehicle through a plurality of jurisdictions, the system comprising:
- a central server comprising a database, said database comprising a plurality of fuelling entries and a plurality of jurisdiction entries, each fuelling entry and each jurisdiction entry associated with one of a plurality of specific vehicles, each fuelling entry comprising a fuel amount and each jurisdiction entry identifying at least one of the plurality of jurisdictions;
a plurality of fuelling station terminals, each fuelling station terminal associated with a fueling station and operative to capture fueling information, the fuelling information comprising an amount of fuel that was purchased for the vehicle at the fuelling station and each fuelling station operative to communicate captured fueling information to the central server such that the central server can store the transmitted fuelling information in a fuelling entry associated with the vehicle; and
a remote device operative to capture jurisdictional crossing information corresponding to the vehicle crossing a border from a first jurisdiction to a second jurisdiction, the jurisdictional crossing information identifying the first jurisdiction and a mileage amount at the time the vehicle crossed the border, the remote device operative to communicate captured jurisdictional crossing information to the central server such that the central server can store the transmitted jurisdictional crossing information in a jurisdictional entry associated with the vehicle;
wherein the fuelling entries and jurisdictional entries are used to determine a total amount of fuel purchased for the vehicle within a time period and allocate portions of the total amount of fuel purchased to the jurisdictions within which the vehicle has traveled based on distances traveled by the vehicle in each of the jurisdictions.
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Abstract
A method and system is provided that allows fuelling and jurisdiction crossing data to be captured and transmitted to a central location to be stored. Fuelling data is captured by a fuelling station terminal about fuel purchased by a vehicle at a fuelling station. This fuelling data is then transmitted to a central server where it is stored in a record corresponding to the vehicle. When the vehicle crosses a jurisdiction border, jurisdiction crossing data is captured and this jurisdiction crossing data is transmitted to a central server by a remote device to be stored in a record associated with the vehicle. To generate the necessary information for a fuel tax report, the data stored in the central server and associated with the vehicle is accessed and the desired fuelling metrics are calculated from this data in order to generate the necessary information.
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31 Claims
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1. A system for allocating fuel purchases for a vehicle based upon travel by the vehicle through a plurality of jurisdictions, the system comprising:
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a central server comprising a database, said database comprising a plurality of fuelling entries and a plurality of jurisdiction entries, each fuelling entry and each jurisdiction entry associated with one of a plurality of specific vehicles, each fuelling entry comprising a fuel amount and each jurisdiction entry identifying at least one of the plurality of jurisdictions;
a plurality of fuelling station terminals, each fuelling station terminal associated with a fueling station and operative to capture fueling information, the fuelling information comprising an amount of fuel that was purchased for the vehicle at the fuelling station and each fuelling station operative to communicate captured fueling information to the central server such that the central server can store the transmitted fuelling information in a fuelling entry associated with the vehicle; and
a remote device operative to capture jurisdictional crossing information corresponding to the vehicle crossing a border from a first jurisdiction to a second jurisdiction, the jurisdictional crossing information identifying the first jurisdiction and a mileage amount at the time the vehicle crossed the border, the remote device operative to communicate captured jurisdictional crossing information to the central server such that the central server can store the transmitted jurisdictional crossing information in a jurisdictional entry associated with the vehicle;
wherein the fuelling entries and jurisdictional entries are used to determine a total amount of fuel purchased for the vehicle within a time period and allocate portions of the total amount of fuel purchased to the jurisdictions within which the vehicle has traveled based on distances traveled by the vehicle in each of the jurisdictions. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23)
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24. A method for allocating fuel purchases for a vehicle based upon travel by the vehicle through a plurality of jurisdictions, the method comprising:
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receiving fueling information that was obtained in response to a purchase of an amount of fuel for the vehicle, from a fuelling station terminal, the fueling information comprising an amount of fuel that was purchased;
receiving jurisdiction border crossing information that was obtained in response to the vehicle crossing a jurisdictional border from a first jurisdiction to a second jurisdiction, the jurisdictional border crossing information identifying a mileage amount at a time the vehicle crossed from the first jurisdiction to the second jurisdiction and identifying the first jurisdiction;
using the fueling information and jurisdictional border crossing information, determining a total amount of fuel purchased for the vehicle within a time period and allocating portions of the total amount of fuel purchased to the jurisdictions within which the vehicle has traveled based on distances traveled by the vehicle in each of the jurisdictions. - View Dependent Claims (25, 26, 27, 28, 31)
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29. A remote device for determining the distance traveled in a plurality of jurisdictions, the remote device comprising:
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a processor;
a memory operatively coupled to the processor;
a global positioning system operative to determine a location of the remote device and operatively coupled to the at least one processor;
a program module stored in the memory and operative for providing instructions to the processor, the processor responsive to the instructions of the program module, the program module operative for;
in response to determining the remote device has crossed a border between a first jurisdiction and a second jurisdiction, storing in the memory a mileage amount indicating a distance the vehicle has traveled in the first jurisdiction and associating it with the first jurisdiction.
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30. A data processing system for allocating fuel purchases for a vehicle based upon travel by the vehicle through a plurality of jurisdictions, the system comprising:
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at least one processor;
a memory operatively coupled to the at least one processor and containing a database, said database comprising a plurality of fuelling entries and a plurality of jurisdiction entries, each fuelling entry and each jurisdiction entry associated with one of a plurality of specific vehicles, each fuelling entry comprising a fuel amount and each jurisdiction entry identifying at least one of the plurality of jurisdictions; and
a program module stored in the memory and operative for providing instructions to the at least one processor, the at least one processor responsive to the instructions of the program module, the program module operative for;
in response to receiving fuelling information captured by one of a plurality of fuelling station terminals such, each fuelling station terminal associated with a fueling station, the fuelling information comprising an amount of fuel that was purchased for the vehicle at the fuelling station, storing the fuelling information in a fuelling entry associated with the vehicle;
in response to receiving jurisdiction crossing information captured by a remote device related to the vehicle crossing a border from a first jurisdiction to a second jurisdiction, the jurisdictional crossing information identifying the first jurisdiction and a mileage amount at the time the vehicle crossed the border, store the received jurisdiction crossing information in a jurisdiction entry associated with the vehicle; and
using the fuelling entries and jurisdictional entries associated with the vehicle, determining a total amount of fuel purchased for the vehicle within a time period and allocate portions of the total amount of fuel purchased to the jurisdictions within which the vehicle has traveled based on distances traveled by the vehicle in each of the jurisdictions.
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