US 12,688,495 B2Granted

Vehicle and control method of vehicle

AssigneesHyundai Motor Company, Kia Corporation

InventorsDongchan Shin, Seungjae Lee

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Abstract

A vehicle may include: an Electronic Toll Collection System (ETCS) terminal including a card Integrated Circuit (IC) chip; and a head unit connected to the ETCS terminal via a vehicle network, wherein the head unit may be configured to: obtain a remaining distance to an ETCS payment location, based on the remaining distance being less than a preset distance, determine whether the ETCS terminal is issuing a new card or deleting an issued card, based on a determination that the ETCS terminal is issuing the new card or deleting the issued card, allow the ETCS terminal to stop an ongoing card issuance operation or an ongoing card deletion operation, and allow the ETCS terminal to change a payment card of the ETCS terminal to a card usable for payment from among cards stored in the card IC chip.

Claims20

Dependent claims

A vehicle, comprising:

an Electronic Toll Collection System (ETCS) terminal including a card Integrated Circuit (IC) chip;
and
an apparatus connected to the ETCS terminal via a vehicle network of the vehicle,
wherein the apparatus is configured to:
obtain a remaining distance to an ETCS payment location,
based on the remaining distance being less than a preset distance, determine whether the ETCS terminal is issuing a new card via Over The Air (OTA) or deleting an issued card via OTA,
based on a determination that the ETCS terminal is issuing the new card via OTA or deleting the issued card via OTA, control the ETCS terminal to automatically stop an ongoing card issuance operation via OTA or an ongoing card deletion operation via OTA, and
after automatically stopping the ongoing card issuance operation via OTA or the ongoing card deletion operation via OTA, control the ETCS terminal to change a payment card of the ETCS terminal to a card usable for payment from among cards stored in the card IC chip.

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A control method of a vehicle, the control method comprising:

determining, by the vehicle, a remaining distance to an ETCS payment location;
based on the remaining distance being less than a preset distance, determining, by an apparatus of the vehicle connected to an Electronic Toll Collection System (ETCS) terminal via a vehicle network of the vehicle, whether the ETCS terminal including a card Integrated Circuit (IC) chip is issuing a new card via Over The Air (OTA) or deleting an issued card via OTA;
based on a determination that the ETCS terminal is issuing the new card via OTA or deleting the issued card via OTA, automatically stopping, by the apparatus, an ongoing card issuance operation via OTA or an ongoing card deletion operation via OTA of the ETCS terminal;
and
after automatically stopping the ongoing card issuance operation via OTA or the ongoing card deletion operation via OTA, changing a payment card of the ETCS terminal to a card usable for payment from among cards stored in the card IC chip.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 18/641,269Filed 19 Apr 2024
Priority: KR 10-2023-011215225 Aug 2023
Published: US 2025/0069061 A127 Feb 2025
Granted: 21 Jul 2026
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification10 codes

G06Q 20/354
Using cards, e.g. integrated circuit [IC] cards or magnetic cards: card activation or deactivation
G06Q 20/145
Specially adapted for billing systems: payments according to the detected use or quantity
G06Q 20/227
Payment schemes or models: characterised in that multiple accounts are available, e.g. to the payer
G06Q 20/308
Characterised by the use of specific devices or networks: using the Internet of Things