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| Application No. | Application Title | Issue Date |
| 20110301985 | System and method for operating a service to arrange transport amongst parties through use of mobile devices A system and method are described for enabling transportation to be arranged for individuals carrying handsets or mobile devices. In some embodiments, a customer can transmit a request for transport from a given customer geographic location. A service may handle the req... | 12/08/2011 |
| 20110082797 | VEHICLE USAGE-BASED TOLLING PRIVACY PROTECTION ARCHITECTURE A client-side on-board computing device is partitioned into a trusted computing module, and a private computing platform. When a metric report is required, the private computing platform retrieves an original data file and transfers the original data file to the trusted... | 04/07/2011 |
| 20110047037 | Automatic Electronic Trip Receipt System and Method for Chauffeured Vehicles The present invention relates to an automatic electronic trip receipt system and method for chauffeured vehicles, and more particularly, to an automatic electronic trip receipt system which combines an in-car device and a center server to automatically generate a electr... | 02/24/2011 |
| 20100191675 | WIRELESS POSITIONAL BASED ROUTE TOLLING A system for determining a distance a vehicle transits within a road system has a mobile device and a main processing unit. The mobile device has a device identification signature and a processing unit to process wireless communication signals received from a network of... | 07/29/2010 |
| 20100100507 | Determining Vehicle Visit Costs To A Geographic Area Systems, methods, apparatus, and computer program products are provided for assigning parameters to a geographic area to provide more accurate cost and fee estimates associated with a delivery vehicle visit (e.g., a package pickup/delivery) to a location within the geog... | 04/22/2010 |
| 20100094780 | SIGNAL PROCESSING APPARATUS A signal processing apparatus for a taxi meter comprises a processor (108) and a plug (122). The plug (122) connects to a vehicle's (100) diagnostic system (116) and receives an incoming electrical signal from the vehicle's diagnostic ... | 04/15/2010 |
| 20100017275 | MOBILE COMMUNICATION DEVICE CONFIGURED FOR TRANSIT APPLICATION An apparatus configured for transit application and methods for utilizing the apparatus for transit application is disclosed. One embodiment of the invention is directed to a mobile communication device comprising a processor, a computer readable medium coupled to the p... | 01/21/2010 |
| 20090259528 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR ENSURING DATA PRIVACY IN OFFBOARD TOLL COLLECTION A method for determining toll routes, using a filter unit and a vehicle onboard unit onboard unit in communication with one another, the filter unit having map material so that toll routes are determinable on the basis of a position data, includes transmitting, by the o... | 10/15/2009 |
| 20090210299 | Method and Apparatus for Simplifying the Handling of Complex Payment Transactions A predetermined amount, which may, in general, be zero, less than, the same as, or greater than a (yet-to-be-determined) final transaction amount, is charged upon first presentation of a payment device to a merchant. A final transaction amount is calculated, preferably ... | 08/20/2009 |
| 20090037095 | TRANSMODAL AND LOGISTICS SYSTEM AND METHOD A transmodal and logistics method, comprising generating at least one transportation route for shipping a shipment using one or more different transportation modes and at least two transportation providers, and calculating a cost rate associated with the at least one tr... | 02/05/2009 |
| 20080201212 | SMART SIGN MOBILE TRANSIT FARE PAYMENT A system and method for facilitating the payment and collection of transit system fares using a mobile device utilizes a smart sign including near field communication (NFC) devices that communicate with a contactless element embedded within a mobile wireless device. Eac... | 08/21/2008 |
| 20080189226 | System and Method of Calculating Rates for Use of Transportation Services A computer system makes reservations for transportation services. Vendor information for rental resources is stored in a central database. A customer makes a reservation inquiry. The central database is searched to find availability of the rental resources for the reser... | 08/07/2008 |
| 20080120163 | Method of Providing a Degradation Drum In one aspect of the invention a degradation drum comprises a generally cylindrical body comprising inner and outer diameters. At least one degradation assembly is disposed on the outer diameter and it comprises a holder and a pick shank secured within a bore of the hol... | 05/22/2008 |
| 20080114707 | Taximeter using digital speed or distance as input There is provided an electronic taximeter that accepts a digital data input representative of one of a vehicle speed and a distance traveled by the vehicle. The digital data signal may be taken from the electronic engine bus of the vehicle or from the On Board Diagnosti... | 05/15/2008 |
| 20070299722 | Method For The Automatic Detection Of The Use Of Chargeable Means Of Transport Conveying Passengers Disclosed is a method for the automatic detection of the use of chargeable means of transport conveying passengers. Said method is characterized in that at least one transmitter located in the area of the means of transport sends out data telegrams in the form of unidir... | 12/27/2007 |
| 20070250444 | Rental system for movable body such as vehicle The present invention is a movable body management system which can appropriately calculate a movable body fee according to availability etc. and flexibly and effectively allow movable bodies to be used. Each of vehicles such as cars and bicycles has a GPS capability to... | 10/25/2007 |
| 20070239627 | Rental system for movable body such as vehicle The present invention is a movable body management system which can appropriately calculate a movable body fee according to availability etc. and flexibly and effectively allow movable bodies to be used. Each of vehicles such as cars and bicycles has a GPS capability to... | 10/11/2007 |
| 20070027825 | Transport system A transport system having commuters with identification and/or vehicles with identification (“identifiers”) authorising them to take part in the transport system, at least one vehicle park in which authorised commuters may park vehicles and/or take on board authoris... | 02/01/2007 |
| 20060293993 | Suggesting and selecting a service provider to provide a service for a journey Planning a journey includes planning the journey from an origin to a destination. A service along the journey is suggested. Bids for the service are requested from service providers, and the bids are received from the service providers. The service providers are evaluat... | 12/28/2006 |
| 20060200430 | TAXIMETER AND METHOD FOR CALCULATING CAP FARE USING NAVIGATION SYSTEM A taximeter and method for calculating a cap fare using a navigation system is provided. The taximeter includes a GPS (global positioning system) module having a speed sensor to measure a speed, and receiving position information and absolute time information, calculati... | 09/07/2006 |
| 20050197976 | System and method for processing toll transactions A system and method for fleet-based processing of toll transactions comprises: a toll processing service provider (140); toll agencies (160) providing toll transaction data (152, 154) to the toll processing service provider (140); fleet vehic... | 09/08/2005 |
| 20050179563 | Motor vehicle occupancy signaling system A system that allows a claim by a registrant as to the number of occupants traveling in a vehicle over a section of highway with a high occupancy vehicle incentive program in place to be transmitted. The registrant is identified by a registrant identifier. The claim abo... | 08/18/2005 |
| 20050168351 | Device and system for toll payment A navigation device stores road data that includes positions of toll roads where payback of a part of a toll is provided based on a used distance of each of the toll roads. The navigation device computes a traveled distance of the relevant toll road to thereby compute t... | 08/04/2005 |
| 20050080752 | Communal vehicle system In a motor vehicle sharing system for managing motor vehicles are parked in a parking area and renting the motor vehicles to users, the motor vehicle is provided with a detector for detecting a start of motor vehicle rental and end of the motor vehicle rental, and an us... | 04/14/2005 |
