Electronic toll settlement system for vehicle

• US 8,615,424 B2
• Filed: 08/04/2009
• Issued: 12/24/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 10/08/2008
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Hyundai Motor Company (Hyundai Motor Group)
• Original Assignee: Hyundai Motor Company (Hyundai Motor Group)
• Inventors: Kim, Jong Hyup
• Primary Examiner(s): Chen, George
• Application Number:
  US12/534,973
• Publication Number:
  US 20100036716A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,603 Days
• Field of Search: 705/13, 705/1.1, 705/400, 705/7.35
• US Class Current: 705/13
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 20/40 Authorisation, e.g. identification of payer or payee, verification of customer or shop credentials; Review and approval of payers, e.g. check credit lines or negative lists
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/06 Buying, selling or leasing transactions
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 50/40 Business processes related to the transportation industry shipping G06Q10/083

Abstract

The present invention relates to an electronic toll settlement device of a vehicle, more particularly, to a technology which settles an insufficient amount from a mobile communications server and delivers to a toll settlement server through a mobile communications terminal when the balance of a high-pass terminal is worth less than a toll.

Claims

1. An electronic toll settlement system embedded in a dashboard of a vehicle, the system comprising:

a high-pass terminal configured to be electrically connected with a smart card being charged with a balance amount, in conjunction with a toll settlement server, performs a settlement with a balance charged on the smart card, wherein when the amount of the balance remaining on the smart card is insufficient to settle the toll requested by the toll settlement server, the high pass terminal generates information of a toll payable based on the insufficient amount to settle a remaining portion of the toll on a mobile communication server via a mobile phone micro settlement; and

an electronic toll settlement device including;

a data receiver, embedded within the dashboard of the vehicle, configured to receive the information of toll payable according to an insufficient amount generated in a toll settlement between a toll settlement server and a high-pass terminal; and

a wireless local communications module, embedded within the dashboard of the vehicle, configured to deliver the information of the toll payable and vehicle to a mobile communications server through a mobile communications terminal embedded within the vehicle, the mobile communications server processing payment of the toll payable and delivering the information of a paid toll and vehicle to the toll settlement server for a settlement,

wherein the information of the toll payable is a total amount or the insufficient amount of a toll, and when the amount of the balance charged in the smart card is insufficient to settle the toll requested by the toll settlement server, the high pass terminal settles the toll with the balance charged in the smart card first, then generates the information of the toll payable for the insufficient amount, or stops the settlement and then generates the information of the toll payable for the total amount of the toll requested by the toll settlement server.

2. The electronic toll settlement system of claim 1, further comprising:

a database in which mobile communications terminal information of a toll obligator of a vehicle is registered;

a key input unit that generates an user control signal;

a controller that searches the information of the mobile communications terminal which would deliver information of toll payable and vehicle in a database; and

a display unit that displays the toll payable information.

3. The electronic toll settlement system of claim 1, wherein the mobile communications server comprises:

an authenticator that authenticates the mobile communications terminal;

a communications module which delivers a payment confirmation request message to the mobile communications terminal in case of succeeding in an authentication of the mobile communications terminal, and receives a payment confirmation message generated in response to the settlement confirmation request message, from the mobile communications terminal; and

a payment unit which processes payment of the toll payable based on the payment confirmation message, and delivers the paid toll to the toll settlement server.

4. The electronic toll settlement system of claim 1, wherein the toll settlement server comprises:

a wireless communications means which communicates wirelessly with the high-pass terminal;

a violation vehicle register which registers the vehicle in which the high-pass terminal is installed as a violation vehicle in a database if the insufficient amount is generated in the toll settlement;

a data receiver which receives the information of the paid toll and vehicle from the mobile communications server;

a violation vehicle deregistration unit that cancels a violation vehicle registration of a vehicle in the database through the information of the paid toll and vehicle; and

a data transmission unit that delivers a deregistration result of the vehicle to the mobile communications terminal such that the mobile communications terminal delivers this to the electronic toll settlement device.