Method for charging location usages

• US 9,830,746 B2
• Filed: 01/20/2014
• Issued: 11/28/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 01/21/2013
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Kapsch TrafficCom AG (Datax Handelsgmbh)
• Original Assignee: Kapsch TrafficCom AG (Datax Handelsgmbh)
• Inventors: Namdar, Nader
• Primary Examiner(s): Robinson, Kito R
• Application Number:
  US14/158,949
• Publication Number:
  US 20140207539A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,408 Days
• Field of Search: 235384, 705 13, 705 35, 705 74, 340928, 455420
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 20/02 involving a neutral party, e.g. certification authority, notary or trusted third party [TTP]
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 20/04 Payment circuits
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 20/10 specially adapted for electronic funds transfer [EFT] systems; specially adapted for home banking systems
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 20/145 Payments according to the detected use or quantity
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0639 Item locations
• CPC Class Codes: G07B 15/06 Arrangements for road pricing or congestion charging of vehicles or vehicle users, e.g. automatic toll systems

Abstract

Methods are described for charging fees in a road toll system. An on-board unit identification is input into a toll terminal to generate a transaction identification. The transaction identification is transmitted to a transaction server, and from the server to a transaction terminal. A payment card identification is input into the transaction terminal, and is transmitted with the transaction identification to the server. A substitute identification, generated in the transaction server and associated with the card identification, and the transaction identification are transmitted from the transaction server to the toll terminal. The on-board unit identification and substitute identification, associated by the transaction identification, are transmitted from the toll terminal to a toll server. The substitute identification is used in a communication between the toll server and the transaction server for charging a fee for a location usage determined in the road toll system under the respective on-board unit identification.

Claims

1. A computer implemented method for charging fees for location usages by on-board units that are carried in vehicles in a road toll system by means of a separate payment transaction system, wherein the road toll system has a toll server, at least one toll terminal and at least one sub-system for determining the location usages, and the payment transaction system has a transaction server and at least one transaction terminal for payment cards, said method comprising:

inputting an identification of an on-board unit, configured to communicate via dedicated short range communication (DSRC) and/or to be self-locating via a global navigation satellite system (GNSS), into the toll terminal, generating a respective transaction identification and transmitting the transaction identification from the toll terminal to the transaction server via a first data connection therebetween;

transmitting the transaction identification from the transaction server to the transaction terminal via a second data connection therebetween;

inputting a card identification of a payment card into the transaction terminal and transmitting the card identification and the transaction identification from the transaction terminal to the transaction server via the second data connection;

transmitting a substitute identification, generated by the transaction server and unambiguously associated with the card identification, and the transaction identification from the transaction server to the toll terminal via the first data connection;

retrieving, by the toll terminal, the on-board unit identification associated with the transaction identification and transmitting the on-board unit identification and the substitute identification from the toll terminal to the toll server; and

using the substitute identification in a communication via a third data connection between the toll server and the transaction server for charging a fee for a location usage determined by the sub-system under the respective on-board unit identification.

2. The computer implemented method according to claim 1, wherein, when charging a fee for the location usage,

at least one toll value is calculated in the toll road system relative to the on-board unit identification;

in the toll server, the substitute identification associated with the on-board unit identification is determined in the event of a fee charge request and is transmitted, together with the toll value, to the transaction server via the third data connection; and

in the transaction server, the card identification associated with the received substitute identification is determined and the toll value is charged on the basis of the determined card identification.

3. The computer implemented method according to claim 1, wherein a transaction value is additionally input into the toll terminal and is additionally transmitted when the transaction identification is transmitted from the toll terminal to the transaction server, and from the transaction server further to the transaction terminal.

4. The computer implemented method according to claim 1, wherein the transaction identification is additionally transmitted when the on-board unit identification and the substitute identification are transmitted from the toll terminal to the toll server.

5. The computer implemented method according to claim 1, wherein authorisation data is generated in the transaction server and is also transmitted when the substitute identification and the transaction identification are transmitted from the transaction server to the toll terminal.

6. The computer implemented method according to claim 5, wherein the authorisation data is also transmitted when the on-board unit identification and the substitute identification are transmitted from the toll terminal to the toll server.

7. The computer implemented method according to claim 1, wherein person-based and/or vehicle-based data is additionally captured in the toll terminal and is also transmitted when the on-board unit identification and the substitute identification are transmitted from the toll terminal to the toll server.

8. The computer implemented method according to claim 1, wherein a credit card payment transaction system is used as the payment transaction system.