METHOD AND SYSTEM TO PROVIDE ELECTRONIC PARKING VALIDATION FOR DRIVERS USING A PAY BY CELL PARKING SYSTEM
First Claim
1. A method for remote parking management and payment, comprising:
- verifying a payment request from a user;
granting or rejecting the payment request based on an authentication rule defined within an resident program suite, wherein said authentication rule is modified on real time basis; and
real time communicating a payment status for the parking management in response to granting the payment request based on the authentication rule.
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Abstract
A method and a system provide electronic parking validation using a pay by cell parking system is disclosed. The system allows any entity to offer instant parking credit covering a portion or the whole amount of parking charges. The credit is directly applicable to the current parking charges. The system has an operational pay-by-cell parking system in place and the recipient of the parking credit is a registered customer in good standing of the system. The system comprises a suite of computer programs residing on a server for remote wireless parking management and payment. The suite of computer programs verifies a third party payment request, such a third party using a wireless or landline telephone to request access. The suite of computer programs grants or rejects such access request based on a plurality of authentication rules defined within the server resident program suite.
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16 Claims
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1. A method for remote parking management and payment, comprising:
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verifying a payment request from a user;
granting or rejecting the payment request based on an authentication rule defined within an resident program suite, wherein said authentication rule is modified on real time basis; and
real time communicating a payment status for the parking management in response to granting the payment request based on the authentication rule. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11)
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12. A system for remote parking management and payment, comprising:
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a telephone interface layer, for capturing a caller ID of a call from a user and capturing an area code from which the call originates, and selectively capturing information entered by the user as per system prompts;
an interactive voice response layer, for accepting a payment request from the user, passes the payment request on to the business logic layer and plays messages to the user based on an response received from the business logic layer, and accepts input from the user according to the response and passes the input on to the business logic layer until the user terminates the payment request, wherein the business layer compares a coupon identification (ID) on a parking voucher from the user with a plurality of coupon IDs already defined in a database, based on the outcome of the logical transaction, the business logic layer outputs the response to the user through the interactive voice response layer. - View Dependent Claims (13, 14, 15, 16)
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