Authorization of service using vehicle information and/or user information
AssigneeInrix, Inc.
InventorsChristopher L. Scofield, Scott Marshall Sedlik, Dominic Jason Jordan, Uri Lavee
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Abstract
Among other things, one or more techniques and/or systems are provided for authorizing an action using vehicle identification information (e.g., supplied by a vehicle) and user identification information (e.g., supplied by a mobile device associated with a user of the vehicle). Such an action may relate to, among other things, refueling the vehicle, parking the vehicle, using a fee-based road segment, and/or other vehicle-centric actions, for example. Moreover, in one embodiment, as part of the authorization, a payment transaction may be initiated by an authorization system configured to authorize the action.
Claims20
An authorization method, comprising:
- receiving a request to authorize an action, the request comprising:
- user identification information pertaining to a user and yielded from a mobile device associated with the user, and
- vehicle identification information pertaining to a vehicle of the user and yielded from the vehicle;
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- authorizing the action in response to receiving the request when the user as identified by the user identification information and the vehicle as identified by the vehicle identification information are, in combination, authorized to perform the action.
An authorization method, comprising:
- receiving, at a vehicle, user identification information identifying a user of the vehicle;
- identifying an action to be performed with respect to the vehicle;
- sending at least some of the user identification information and vehicle identification information identifying the vehicle to an authorization system configured to determine whether to authorize the action based upon the at least some of the user identification information and the vehicle identification information, in combination;
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- receiving, at the vehicle, authorization information authorizing the action to be performed when the user and the vehicle, are, in combination, authorized to perform the action.
An authorization method, comprising:
- receiving an authorization to perform an action, the authorization based upon user identification information pertaining to a user and yielded from a mobile device associated with the user and vehicle identification information pertaining to a vehicle of the user and yielded from the vehicle, the authorization comprising a spending limit associated with the action, the spending limit determined based upon the user identification information and the vehicle identification information;
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- allowing the action to be performed until the spending limit is satisfied based upon the authorization.
An authorization method, comprising:
- receiving a first request to authorize an action when a first user is associated with a vehicle, the first request comprising:
- first user identification information pertaining to the first user, and
- vehicle identification information pertaining to the vehicle;
- determining, based upon the first user identification information and the vehicle identification information, that the first user and the vehicle, in combination, are authorized to perform the action;
- receiving a second request to authorize the action when a second user is associated with the vehicle, the second request comprising:
- second user identification information pertaining to the second user, and
- the vehicle identification information pertaining to the vehicle;
- determining, based upon the second user identification information and the vehicle identification information, that the second user and the vehicle, in combination, are not authorized to perform the action.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.