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US 2004/0167861 A1Published application
Electronic toll management
OwnerJay E. Hedleyinventor
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Abstract
Electronic toll management includes capturing an image of a vehicle triggered by a transaction event representing an interaction between the vehicle and a facility, determining a vehicle identifier based on the captured image, checking whether the vehicle identifier matches a vehicle identifier provided by a party, and notifying the party of an occurrence of a match.
Claims69
A computerized method comprising:
- capturing an image of a vehicle triggered by a transaction event representing an interaction between the vehicle and a facility;
- determining a vehicle identifier based on the captured image;
- checking whether the vehicle identifier matches a vehicle identifier provided by a party;
- and
- notifying the party of an occurrence of a match.
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A system comprising:
- a database for storing vehicle identifiers and vehicle identifiers provided by a party;
- a facility configured to capture and process images of vehicles that interact with the facility;
- and
- a computer system configured to communicate with the database and the facility, the computer system for:
- processing an image of a vehicle triggered by a transaction event representing an interaction between the vehicle and the facility,
- determining a vehicle identifier based on the captured image,
- checking whether the vehicle identifier matches a vehicle identifier provided by the party, and notifying the party of an occurrence of a match.
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An article comprising a machine-readable medium storing machine-executable instructions that, when applied to the machine, cause the machine to perform operations comprising:
- capturing an image of a vehicle triggered by a transaction event representing an interaction between the vehicle and the facility;
- determining a vehicle identifier based on the captured image;
- checking whether the vehicle identifier matches a vehicle identifier provided by a party;
- and
- notifying the party of an occurrence of a match.
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A computerized method comprising:
- capturing an image of a vehicle triggered by a transaction event representing an interaction between the vehicle and a facility;
- determining a vehicle identifier based on the captured image;
- determining a party associated with the vehicle identifier by searching one or more vehicle registration authority databases each being associated with a particular jurisdiction, using the vehicle identifier as a key for searching the databases;
- and
- processing payment from the party associated with the vehicle identifier based on the transaction event, wherein processing payment is performed for each vehicle interacting with the facility.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.