METHOD OF PROCESSING A TRANSACTION FOR A PARKING SESSION

• US 20130117079A1
• Filed: 11/16/2012
• Published: 05/09/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 02/12/2003
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Motorola Solutions, Inc.
• Original Assignee: Avigilon Patent Holding 1 Corporation
• Inventors: Ioli, Edward D.
• Granted Patent: US 9,734,462 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 705/13
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/00 Administration; Management
• 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 50/40 Business processes related to the transportation industry shipping G06Q10/083
• CPC Class Codes: G07B 15/00 Arrangements or apparatus for collecting fares, tolls or entrance fees at one or more control points handling coins or valuable papers, e.g. banknotes, G07D; apparatus for vending or hiring articles or services activated by coins, credit cards, paper currency or the like G07F7/00, G07F17/00
• CPC Class Codes: G08G 1/0175 by photographing vehicles, e.g. when violating traffic rules
• CPC Class Codes: G08G 1/207 with respect to certain areas, e.g. forbidden or allowed areas with possible alerting when inside or outside boundaries

Abstract

A method, using a mobile device, of initiating the processing of a transaction for a parking session between a parking system and a payment provider on behalf of a user, the method comprising storing a user identifier in memory on the mobile device, receiving a parking identifier and transmitting the user identifier and the parking identifier to a network server.

Claims

1-20. -20. (canceled)

21. A method of processing a transaction for a parking session between a parking system and a payment provider on behalf of a user, wherein the user facilitates the transaction through a mobile computing device connected to a remote server, the method comprising:

on the mobile computing device of the user, storing a user identifier;

first receiving a parking identifier, then sending the user identifier and the parking identifier to the server;

on the server, receiving the user identifier and the parking identifier;

retrieving parking system information based on the parking identifier;

retrieving payment provider information based on the user identifier;

processing a transaction between the payment provider and parking system, wherein the transaction amount is based on a duration of the parking session;

wherein the parking session has a start time and an end time, wherein the start time is determined from the time a start condition is met, the end time is determined from the time an end condition is met, and the parking session duration is the difference between the end time and start time.

22. The method of claim 21, wherein a vehicle identifier is associated with the user identifier.

23. The method of claim 22, wherein the vehicle identifier is a license plate number.

24. The method of claim 21, wherein the start condition is the verification of the user identifier and the parking identifier, wherein verification comprises of successfully retrieving user information and parking information based on the user identifier and parking identifier, respectively.

25. The method of claim 21 further comprising retrieving parking information based on the parking supplier information by the server and sending the parking information to the mobile computing device.

26. The method of claim 21 further comprising gathering location data associated with a vehicle and sending the location data to the server.

27. The method of claim 21, wherein the parking identifier is an encoded image.

28. The method of claim 27, wherein first receiving the parking identifier comprises capturing the encoded image in a photograph.

29. A method, using a mobile device, of initiating the processing of a transaction for a parking session between a parking system and a payment provider on behalf of a user, the method comprising:

storing a user identifier in memory on the mobile device;

receiving a parking identifier; and

transmitting the user identifier and the parking identifier to a network server.

30. The method of claim 29, wherein the parking identifier is an encoded image.

31. The method of claim 30, wherein receiving the parking identifier comprises capturing the encoded image in a photograph.

32. The method of claim 29, wherein the parking identifier identifies the parking system.

33. The method of claim 32, wherein the parking identifier identifies a parking location.

34. The method of claim 33, wherein the parking identifier identifies one of a plurality of parking spaces.

35. The method of claim 29, wherein the transaction amount is based on a duration of the parking session.

36. A method of processing a transaction for a parking session between a parking system and a payment provider on behalf of a user, the method comprising:

receiving a user identifier and a parking identifier from a mobile device;

retrieving parking supplier information based on the parking identifier;

retrieving payment provider information based on the user identifier; and

processing a transaction between the payment provider and the parking system.

37. The method of claim 36, wherein the transaction amount is based on a duration of the parking session.

38. The method of claim 37, and wherein the parking session has a start time and an end time, wherein the start time is determined from the time a start condition is met, the end time is determined from the time an end condition is met, and the parking session duration is the difference between the end time and start time.

39. The method of claim 36, wherein the parking identifier is an encoded image.

40. The method of claim 36, wherein receiving the parking identifier from the mobile device comprises receiving the encoded image in the form of a photograph.