Method and System for Electronic Toll Payment
AssigneeBankpass, Inc
InventorsGlenn Deitiker, J. Chris George, Shannon Fuentes Swank
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Abstract
A system and method for making electronic payments for tolls, parking and related transactions. A customer downloads an application onto their personal electronic device and registers the customer's vehicle and financial account information with a provider. The application detects upcoming toll facilities and notifies the customer. The customer can accept the payment of the toll through the application whereupon the provider makes a payment from the customer's designated account to the toll facility.
Claims19
A method for making payments, comprising:
- providing, by one or more processors, an application to a customer for installation on a personal electronic device;
- registering, by the one or more processors, the customer's vehicle's license plate and financial account information with a financial network, wherein the financial network is communicatively connected to a vehicle license plate detection device that is located within a toll facility;
- detecting, through the vehicle license plate detection device, the customer's vehicle's license plate at the toll facility;
- paying a toll charge for the customer's use of the toll facility by debiting the customer's financial account and paying the toll facility;
- and
- notifying the customer through the application that the customer has paid the toll charge.
A method for making payments, comprising:
- providing an application to a customer for installation on a personal electronic device;
- registering the customer's vehicle and financial account;
- detecting the customer's vehicle at such time as the customer passes through a toll facility;
- after the customer passes through the toll facility, notifying the customer through the application of the toll charges for using the toll facility;
- receiving instructions from the customer through the application to pay the toll charges;
- and
- paying fees for the customer's use of the toll facility by debiting the customer's financial account and paying the toll facility.
A method for making payments, comprising:
- providing, by one or more processors, an application to customers for installation on a personal electronic device;
- registering, by the one or more processors, a customer's vehicle's license plate and financial account;
- detecting the customer at a toll facility using the personal electronic device's geolocation system;
- paying fees for the customer's use of the toll facility by debiting the customer's financial account and paying the toll facility;
- and
- notifying the customer through the application that the customer has paid the toll charge.
A method for making payments, comprising:
- providing, by one or more processors, an application to customers for installation on a personal electronic device;
- providing, by one or more processors, an application to a driver for installation on a personal electronic device;
- registering, by the one or more processors, the customer's financial account and the driver's financial account;
- registering, by the one or more processors, the driver's vehicle's license plate;
- detecting the driver at a toll facility using the personal electronic device's geolocation system;
- debiting the customer's financial account and paying the driver the amount of the toll facility's fee;
- debiting the driver's financial account and paying the toll facility the amount of the toll facility's fee.
- paying fees for the driver's use of the toll facility by facility;
- and
- notifying the customer through the application that the toll facility's fee has been paid.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.