Method and apparatus for providing a toll service and flexible toll device

A system for automated payment of tolls, comprising:

• a RFID toll module that is configured to communicatively couple to a mobile device, the mobile device executing a toll application, the RFID toll module including a plurality of RFID tags that are each configured to communicate with a toll reader using a respective different RFID protocol for a toll transaction, wherein one of the plurality of RFID tags is selected, by the mobile device, to be read by the toll reader, based on a message from the mobile device to the RFID module and based on a location of the mobile device as determined by the mobile device, wherein the mobile device turns on the RIFD module in response to detecting an approach of the toll reader, wherein the selected one of the plurality of RFID tags communicates an identifier to the toll reader in response to being read by the toll reader during the toll transaction, wherein the RFID toll module communicates transaction information to the toll application on the mobile device upon completion of each toll transaction;
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• a toll service backend server that maintains a toll account associated with the mobile device, and to which the toll application on the mobile device communicates the transaction information;
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• wherein the toll service backend reconciles payment of the toll with a toll agency that operates the toll reader, using funds from the toll account.