MOBILE METHOD FOR PREPARING VEHICLE TOWING FEES

• US 20170053250A1
• Filed: 08/18/2016
• Published: 02/23/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 08/18/2015
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Julian Bowers
• Original Assignee: Julian Bowers
• Inventors: Bowers, Julian
• Application Number:
  US15/241,003
• Publication Number:
  US 20170053250A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 20/102 Bill distribution or payments
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 50/26 Government or public services business processes related to the transportation industry G06Q50/40
• CPC Class Codes: G07F 17/24 for parking meters

Abstract

A method to prevent an incorrectly parked vehicle from being towed to an impound lot, wherein tow truck drivers send tow notification warnings to registered users/car owner/driver through a mobile application and the registered users/car owner/driver can pay towing fee in advance while allowing them a set amount of time to also physically claim their vehicle and move to an all-right parking location.

Claims

8-1. The method according to claim 10, wherein the information where to retrieve the incorrectly parked vehicle includes routing information from a location of the third data processing device.

10-1. The method according to claim 10, wherein the identifying information is entered by a tow truck operator.

11. A method for paying violation penalties for an incorrectly parked vehicle, the method comprising the steps:

entering identifying information about an incorrectly parked vehicle and location information of the incorrectly parked vehicle into an application residing on a first data processing device;

transmitting the identifying information and the location information to a database residing on a second data processing device and including member vehicles registered with the application;

transmitting membership information of the incorrectly parked vehicle from the second data processing device to the first data processing device;

transmitting violation information including the location information from the second data processing device to a third data processing device if the incorrectly parked vehicle is a member vehicle;

transmitting payment information from the third data processing device to the second data processing device if the incorrectly parked vehicle is a member vehicle and a member wishes to advance violation penalties;

transmitting a payment confirmation from the second date processing device to the third data processing device if the violation penalties have been advanced.

12. The method according to claim 11, wherein the identifying information is entered by a law enforcement official.