System and Method for providing Internet-based vehicle registration and transactions

• US 20130262275A1
• Filed: 09/19/2012
• Published: 10/03/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 08/24/2010
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Liberty Plugins, Inc.
• Original Assignee: Liberty Plugins, Inc.
• Inventors: Outwater, Chris, Redmann, William Gibbens
• Application Number:
  US13/622,754
• Publication Number:
  US 20130262275A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 705/27.1
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/02 Reservations, e.g. for tickets, services or events
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 20/40145 Biometric identity checks
• 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

Abstract

A system and method for augmenting location or event or parking access to a process not only for access to parking, but to goods and services based on the mobile customer being tied to a license plate number or group of license plate numbers tied to a credit card, checking account or other payment account. This allows that customer to biometrically authenticate and order goods to be available at a participating event or drive through location based on a biometrically authenticated order and the (known) proximity of the customer to the drive through location.

Claims

1. A system for license plate registered shopping comprising:

a server executing a stored program adapted to register a customer online by correlating a license plate with a payment account, said server also adapted to allow said customer to generate a biometric authentication;

said server adapted to recognize said authentication when the customer with said license plate drives through a drive-through store;

said server adapted to allow said customer, after said authentication is recognized to complete a transaction at said drive-through store.

2. The system of claim 1 wherein said drive-through store has a local computer cooperating with said server, said local computer executing a stored program to present said authorization to the server over a network.

3. The system of claim 2 wherein said local computer is adapted to store a set of preferences for said customer.

4. The system of claim 1 wherein said authentication includes a fingerprint.

5. The system of claim 1 wherein said biometric authentication includes recognition of a voice.

6. The system of claim 1 wherein said drive-through store is located near an event parking location.

7. The system of claim 1 further comprising said server adapted to create an authenticable sub-account for a person other than said customer.

8. A system for license plate registered shopping comprising a sensor at a merchant location for recognizing a license plate, a server remote from said merchant location in network communication with said sensor, a database accessible to said server, a payment service, said server also in network communication with said payment service, wherein said server executing a stored program is adapted to store a license plate number, an associated biometric authentication and an associated account number from said payment service, and wherein said server is also adapted to receive a license plate number over the network from said merchant location, find said license plate number in said database, also receive an a biometric authentication over the network from said merchant location, compare said biometric authentication received over the network with said stored biometric authentication, and if a match is determined, complete a transaction by instructing said payment service to pay a particular amount from said associated account to said merchant.

9. The system of claim 8 wherein said biometric identification can contain a fingerprint or voice recognition parameters.

10. The system of claim 8 wherein said server is also adapted to register a sub-account user.

11. The system of claim 8 wherein said server is also adapted to store a set of preferences associated with a license plate number.

12. The system of claim 8 wherein said merchant location has a local computer cooperating with said server, said local computer executing a stored program to present said authorization to the server over the network.

13. The system of claim 8 wherein said merchant location is located near an event parking location.

14. A method of recognizing and allowing a customer to shop at a drive-through store comprising:

allowing a customer to register a license plate with a service online;

coupling said license plate to a payment account;

providing said customer with a biometric authentication;

receiving said license plate number as a customer approaches a drive-through store;

recognizing said biometric authentication after the customer enters said drive-through store;

completing a transaction at said drive-through store based on said payment account and said biometric authentication.

15. The method of claim 14 wherein said biometric authentication includes a fingerprint.

16. The method of claim 14 wherein said biometric authentication includes voice recognition of said customer.

17. The method of claim 14 further comprising allow said customer to create a sub-account for a person other than said customer.

18. The method of claim 14 wherein said drive-through store is located near an event parking location.

19. A method of shopping administered by at least one server comprising the steps of:

a) accepting a registration with the at least one server for a first user, the registration comprising at least a license plate and a payment method;

b) accepting a selection by the user with the at least one server for a product;

c) accepting a payment for the product with the at least one server through the payment method;

d) recording the selection and payment with the at least one server in conjunction with the registration as a transaction;

e) accepting with the at least one server, from a vendor, data representative of the license plate;

f) indicating to the vendor, with the at least one server, the product to be provided on the basis of the license plate; and

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g) accepting from the vendor an acknowledgement that the product was provided;

whereby the user is able to shop for and obtain products on the basis of the license plate.

20. The method of claim 19 wherein the acknowledgment from the vendor comprises an authentication of the user.