METHOD OF MANAGING A CENTRALIZED PARKING PAYMENT SYSTEM, AND CENTRALIZED PARKING PAYMENT SYSTEM

• US 20100280941A1
• Filed: 04/27/2010
• Published: 11/04/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 04/29/2009
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Parkeon
• Original Assignee: Parkeon
• Inventors: MASSON, Francois, CROZE, Emmanuel
• Application Number:
  US12/767,926
• Publication Number:
  US 20100280941A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 705/39
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 20/10 specially adapted for electronic funds transfer [EFT] systems; specially adapted for home banking systems
• 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

A method of managing a centralized parking payment system (2), the system (2) including at least one pay and display machine (6) and a payment centralization server (4), the or each pay and display machine (6) permitting payment for parking spaces situated in a corresponding payment zone (44) and being capable of creating payment data for the parking spaces and of recording them in a payment transactions file, and each pay and display machine (6) communicating via a first connection (12) with the centralization server (4), is characterized in that it includes a nominal operating mode in which the or each pay and display machine (6) transmits the transaction file only when one of the transmission conditions, apart from the simple creation of payment data, is verified, in order to reduce its energy consumption.

Claims