Proximity service provider system

• US 8,935,184 B2
• Filed: 12/21/2004
• Issued: 01/13/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 10/27/1999
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Automated Business Companies
• Original Assignee: Automated Business Companies
• Inventors: Freeny, Charles C. Jr.
• Primary Examiner(s): Hewitt, II, Calvin L
• Assistant Examiner(s): Winter, John M
• Application Number:
  US11/018,176
• Publication Number:
  US 20050102211A1
• Time in Patent Office: 3,675 Days
• Field of Search: 705/50
• US Class Current: 705/52
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 20/04 Payment circuits
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 20/1235 with control of digital rights management [DRM]
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 20/145 Payments according to the detected use or quantity
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 20/20 Point-of-sale [POS] network systems
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 20/342 Cards defining paid or billed services or quantities
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 20/385 using an alias or single-use codes
• 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 40/00 Finance; Insurance; Tax strategies; Processing of corporate or income taxes
• CPC Class Codes: G07F 7/025 by means, e.g. cards, providing billing information at the time of purchase, e.g. identification of seller or purchaser, quantity of goods delivered or to be delivered

Abstract

Web-sites www.proximityservices.com, www.accessservices.com, www.vendingmachineservices.com, www.vehicleservices.com, www.meterservices.com, www.picopay.com, www.tollservices.com, for all the proximity service systems world wide are disclosed wherein customers can sign up for proximity services such as toll gate services at any toll gate in the world that has signed up to provide the service to customers, parking meter services etc. and the proximity systems owners are guaranteed their payments. In the preferred embodiment all transactions are approved at the local POS (toll gate, parking meter, checkout station, parking lot, pay phone, ATM, gas station, etc.) using a service provider identification number (SPIN) issued to the service provider owner each month for example. The local approved transactions are guaranteed by the web-site owners and the customers each have unique SPIN numbers that expire periodically such as each month. The web-site designs are designed to work most efficiently with all in one access devices such as, a wireless cell phone, a pager, or master PASS unit that can directly activate proximity transaction units by delivering credit card, Smartcard, debit card, and or SPIN code data.

Claims

1. A method for providing a predetermined service, comprising the steps of:

receiving a request for a predetermined service and a cyber card code by a proximity service system;

locally approving the cyber card code by the proximity service system utilizing a cipher algorithm;

providing, by the proximity service system, a predetermined service in response to approving the cyber card code; and

outputting information to a proximity service provider computer system indicating usage of the proximity service system.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the cipher algorithm converts the cyber card code to a service provider identification number, and wherein the proximity service provider periodically receives at least one of a new cipher algorithm and a service provider identification number.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the cyber card code is a public key of a public key, private key encryption system.