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FUEL PURCHASE TRANSACTION METHOD AND SYSTEM

  • US 20130232019A1
  • Filed: 02/25/2013
  • Published: 09/05/2013
  • Est. Priority Date: 02/23/2012
  • Status: Abandoned Application
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1. A method, comprising:

  • detecting, with a point of sale payment system in a frontcourt at a fuel station, a wireless signal from a transmitter of a mobile computing device in a motor vehicle;

    transmitting, with the mobile computing device transmitter, a wireless signal to a receiver providing an account code stored in and retrieved from a readable memory of the mobile computing device;

    receiving, with a fuel station server connected to the receiver, a signal providing the account code stored on the readable memory of the mobile computing device;

    providing, to a network connected to the fuel station server, a query from the fuel station server for a status of an account corresponding to the received account code;

    receiving, at the fuel station server, a signal from the network providing the status of the account;

    receiving, at the point of sale system in the frontcourt of the fuel station, a signal from the fuel station server enabling a fuel dispensing pump proximal to the motor vehicle with the mobile computing device;

    measuring, with a fuel meter in the frontcourt of the fuel station, an amount of fuel dispensed to the motor vehicle using the enabled fuel dispensing pump;

    generating, with the point of sale system, a signal to the fuel station server corresponding to the measured amount of fuel dispensed; and

    transmitting, from the fuel station server, a signal to the network corresponding to the amount of fuel dispensed.

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