ELECTRONIC TOLL MANAGEMENT FOR FLEET VEHICLES
2 Assignments
0 Petitions
Accused Products
Abstract
Toll transaction payment processing includes accessing image data for a vehicle, the image data corresponding to at least one image of the vehicle engaging in a transaction with a toll facility. The image data is processed to determine one or more vehicle identifiers for the vehicle. A fleet vehicle company associated with the vehicle is electronically identified based on the one or more vehicle identifiers. Billing information for the transaction between the vehicle and the toll facility is electronically communicated to the fleet vehicle company.
35 Citations
21 Claims
-
1. (canceled)
-
2. A method of toll transaction payment processing, the method comprising:
-
electronically storing, in a vehicle identifier data store of a toll computer system, identities of multiple registered banks, the multiple registered banks including a first bank and being banks registered for toll payment processing; electronically receiving, by the toll computer system from a computer system of the first bank, a vehicle identifier of a vehicle of a customer of the first bank that receives a checking account service from the first bank and that has registered for an automated toll payment service offered by the first bank; electronically storing, in the vehicle identifier data store of the toll computer system, the vehicle identifier in association with the identity of the first bank; accessing image data for a vehicle, the image data corresponding to at least one image of the vehicle engaging in a transaction with a toll facility; processing the image data to determine one or more vehicle identifiers for the vehicle; electronically determining that the one or more vehicle identifiers correspond to the vehicle identifier received from the computer system of the first bank and stored in the vehicle identifier data store; electronically identifying the first bank, from among the multiple registered banks having identities stored in the vehicle identifier data store, by accessing the identity of the first bank from the vehicle identifier data store; and electronically communicating billing information for the transaction between the vehicle and the toll facility from the toll computer system to the computer system of the first bank for debiting payment for the transaction from a checking account maintained by the first bank for the customer that registered for automated toll payment service. - View Dependent Claims (3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 20)
-
-
12. A toll system comprising:
-
an image data store for storing image data for vehicles, the image data corresponding to at least one image of a vehicle engaging in a transaction with a toll facility; a vehicle identifier data store for storing vehicle identifiers and identities of multiple registered banks, the multiple registered banks including a first bank and being banks registered for toll payment processing; and a toll computer system configured to; store, in the vehicle identifier data store, the identities of the multiple registered banks; receive, from a computer system of the first bank, a vehicle identifier of a vehicle of a customer of the first bank that receives a checking account service from the first bank and that has registered for an automated toll payment service offered by the first bank; store, in the vehicle identifier data store, the vehicle identifier in association with the identity of the first bank; access the image data for the vehicle from the image data store; process the image data to determine one or more vehicle identifiers for the vehicle; determine that the one or more vehicle identifiers correspond to the vehicle identifier received from the computer system of the first bank and stored in the vehicle identifier data store; identify the first bank, from among the multiple registered banks having identities stored in the vehicle identifier data store, by accessing the identity of the first bank from the vehicle identifier data store; and communicate billing information for the transaction between the vehicle and the toll facility to the computer system of the first bank for debiting payment for the transaction from a checking account maintained by the first bank for the customer that registered for automated toll payment service. - View Dependent Claims (13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 21)
-
Specification