# US 2019/0318376 A1 · System for Incentive Eligibility and Validation for Transport Demand Management (TDM) programs

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- Number: US 2019/0318376 A1
- Document ID: US20190318376A1
- Status: Published application
- Kind: A1
- Application number: 15/950,559
- Filed: 2018-04-11
- Published: 2019-10-17
- Earliest claimed: 2018-04-11
- Inventors: Michael Papineau; Mark Feltham
- Web page: https://patentgrep.com/patent/US20190318376A1

## CPC

- G06Q 30/0226: Incentive systems for frequent usage, e.g. frequent flyer miles programs or point systems
- G01S 5/0295: {Proximity-based methods, e.g. position inferred from reception of particular signals}
- G06Q 50/40: Business processes related to the transportation industry (shipping G06Q10/083)
- G01S 19/51: Relative positioning
- H04W 4/021: Services related to particular areas, e.g. point of interest [POI] services, venue services or geofences
- H04W 4/80: Services using short range communication, e.g. near-field communication [NFC], radio-frequency identification [RFID] or low energy communication
- G06Q: INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY [ICT] SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR ADMINISTRATIVE, COMMERCIAL, FINANCIAL, MANAGERIAL OR SUPERVISORY PURPOSES; SYSTEMS OR METHODS SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR ADMINISTRATIVE, COMMERCIAL, FINANCIAL, MANAGERIAL OR SUPERVISORY PURPOSES, NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR
- G01S: RADIO DIRECTION-FINDING; RADIO NAVIGATION; DETERMINING DISTANCE OR VELOCITY BY USE OF RADIO WAVES; LOCATING OR PRESENCE-DETECTING BY USE OF THE REFLECTION OR RERADIATION OF RADIO WAVES; ANALOGOUS ARRANGEMENTS USING OTHER WAVES
- H04W: WIRELESS COMMUNICATION NETWORKS (broadcast communication H04H; communication systems using wireless links for non-selective communication, e.g. wireless extensions H04M1/72)

## Abstract

The present invention is a method and system to confirm commuter eligibility for municipal transportation incentives. In an embodiment the present invention uses a Reward Threshold in combination with an API-bearing mobile device to create and send positional, temporal, and identifying information to a central Server. The Server maintains a record of information received and uses said information to apportion and track progress toward municipal transportation incentives. Upon a user's accumulation of a pre-authorized number, type, or kind of awards, the Server determines a user's having qualified for one or more rewards and/or incentives and enables redemption thereof.

## Claims

### Claim 1

A method for confirming and incentivizing commuter behavior, comprising:
communicating to a server proximity confirmation of one or more mobile devices to one or more reward thresholds;
communicating to the server unique location information of the one or more reward thresholds;
maintaining a record of reward threshold communication;
calculating reward eligibility based upon a supplied algorithm; and
communicating calculated reward via a user interface.

### Claim 2 (depends on 1)

The method of claim 1 where the mobile devices include any device equipped with a radio frequency (RF) transmitter module.

### Claim 3 (depends on 1)

The method of claim 1 where the proximity confirmation is determined wholly or in part by application of geo-fencing, GPS validation, sensor validation, stand-alone beacons, custom signals such as beacon to phone signaling, and mobile device Bluetooth beacons, whether applied singly or in combination.

### Claim 4 (depends on 1)

The method of claim 1 where communications to mobile devices are received through a mobile application.

### Claim 5 (depends on 1)

The method of claim 1 where a user may accumulate multiple rewards.

### Claim 6 (depends on 1)

The method of claim 1 where reward eligibility may be accurately calculated regardless of a user's mode of transportation.

### Claim 7

A system of verifying and incentivizing commuter behavior, comprising:
a user interface;
one or more mobile devices;
one or more reward thresholds;
a server having a processor in wireless communication with one or more mobile devices and one or more reward thresholds;
the one or more reward thresholds communicating proximity confirmation of the one or more mobile devices to the server;
the one or more reward thresholds communicating unique location information to the server;
maintaining a record of reward threshold communication;
calculating reward eligibility based upon a supplied algorithm; and
communicating calculated reward via the user interface.

### Claim 8 (depends on 7)

The system of claim 7 where the mobile devices include any device equipped with a radio frequency (RF) transmitter module.

### Claim 9 (depends on 7)

The system of claim 7 where the proximity confirmation is determined wholly or in part by application of geo-fencing, GPS validation, sensor validation, stand-alone beacons, custom signals such as beacon to phone signaling, and mobile device Bluetooth beacons, whether applied singly or in combination.

### Claim 10 (depends on 7)

The system of claim 7 where the user interface is a mobile application.

### Claim 11 (depends on 7)

The method of claim 7 where a user may accumulate multiple rewards.

### Claim 12 (depends on 7)

The method of claim 7 where reward eligibility may be accurately calculated regardless of a user's mode of transportation.