APPARATUS FOR THE PERSONALIZATION AND REGISTRATION OF VEHICLE DEVICES

• US 20110093315A1
• Filed: 09/03/2010
• Published: 04/21/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 10/15/2009
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Kapsch TrafficCom AG (Datax Handelsgmbh)
• Original Assignee: Kapsch TrafficCom AG (Datax Handelsgmbh)
• Inventors: Tijink, Jasja, Hafenscher, Albert, Nagy, Oliver
• Granted Patent: US 8,346,598 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 705/13
• CPC Class Codes: B60W 2540/043 Identity of occupants
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 20/355 Personalisation of cards for use
• CPC Class Codes: G07B 15/06 Arrangements for road pricing or congestion charging of vehicles or vehicle users, e.g. automatic toll systems
• CPC Class Codes: G07F 7/1008 Active credit-cards provided with means to personalise their use, e.g. with PIN-introduction/comparison system

Abstract

Apparatus for personalization and registration of vehicle devices of different types in a road toll system, comprising: for each type of vehicle device, a respective personalization module that is configured to write personalization data into a vehicle device of this type and generate the associated registration data, which contains the personalization data, an interface module common to all personalization modules that is configured to receive their registration data and, following a release request, send it to a registration database of the road toll system, and a testing unit that reads out the personalization data of a personalized but not yet registered vehicle device, checks the registration data generated by the responsible personalization module for agreement of the personalization data contained therein with the read-out personalization data, and if it agrees, sends a release request with respect to this registration data to the interface module.

Claims

1. An apparatus for personalization and registration of vehicle devices of different types in a road toll system, comprising:

for each type of vehicle device, a respective personalization module that is configured to write personalization data into a vehicle device of this type and generate associated registration data, which contains the personalization data,

an interface module common to all personalization modules that is configured to receive their registration data and, following a release request, send it to a registration database of the road toll system; and

a testing unit that reads out the personalization data of a personalized but not yet registered vehicle device, checks the registration data generated by the responsible personalization module for agreement of the personalization data contained therein with the read-out personalization data, and in case of agreement, sends a release request with respect to this registration data to the interface module.

2. The apparatus according to claim 1, wherein each personalization module also generates a hash value of the registration data during the personalization of a vehicle device and writes it into the vehicle device, and the testing unit reads out this hash value from the vehicle device along with the others and compares it during the aforementioned checking to a hash value of the registration data it received from the personalization module.

3. The apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the apparatus is a PoS terminal and each of the personalization modules is formed by the combination of a vehicle device type-specific personalization application and a vehicle device type-specific communication interface to the vehicle device.

4. The apparatus according to claim 3, wherein the communication interface is a conventional DSRC or mobile phone interface.

5. The apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the testing unit is configured, for the purpose of reading-out the personalization data, to prompt the vehicle device to generate a standardized toll transaction of the road toll system, which transaction reproduces the personalization data.

6. The apparatus according to claim 5, wherein the testing unit co-uses the communication interface of a selected personalization module.

7. The apparatus according to claim 5, wherein the testing unit uses a transceiver beacon of the road toll system for communication with the vehicle devices.