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| 8190469 | Multiple client field device data acquisition and storage A system is provided for acquiring and storing field information, comprising field devices operable to gather field information and receive updated file information. The field devices may be placed in cradles, which facilitate the transfer of the field and file info... | 05/29/2012 |
| 8160971 | Method and apparatus for monitoring an order status A computerized system and method for monitoring an order placed by a customer for a product produced by a supplier to be delivered to a retail location. The method includes presenting an order-entry interface to collect order information about the order to be transm... | 04/17/2012 |
| RE43245 | Urban parking system A wireless network covering a large local geographic area is used to link a large number of payment terminals provided in the same area. Each payment terminal is located near a plurality of parking spaces, either at the curbside or in municipal lots. Parking data is... | 03/13/2012 |
| 8135614 | Multiple RF read zone system A multizone RF read/write system for conducting transactions with vehicles traveling at high speeds. A first RF read zone is created, preferably by use of a first gantry that extends over at least one lane and contains at least one RF source that creates a large pow... | 03/13/2012 |
| 8126769 | Transit card state sequence self-help correction A method of electronic transit fare payment is provided. The method comprises receiving a transit card state correction input and storing a transit card state correction record based on receiving the transit card state correction input. The method also comprises cha... | 02/28/2012 |
| 8065181 | System and method for electronic toll collection based on vehicle load A system for electronic toll collection from a vehicle including an electronic tag for capturing information including a number of passengers in the vehicle and an electronic tag identification, a wireless transmitter for transmitting the captured information; and a... | 11/22/2011 |
| 8060401 | Methods, systems, and computer-readable media for providing an indication of a schedule conflict Methods, systems, and computer-readable media provide for providing an indication of a schedule conflict. According to embodiments, a method for providing an indication of a schedule conflict is provided. According to the method, whether one of a plurality of techni... | 11/15/2011 |
| 8055534 | Variable rate travel fee based upon vehicle occupancy Methods, including service methods, articles of manufacture, systems, articles and programmable devices are provided for charging travel fees or awarding benefits as a function of vehicle occupancy. Variable travel fee schedules include a plurality of different rate... | 11/08/2011 |
| 8055533 | Method and apparatus for assigning material transport vehicle idle locations A method for determining parking assignments for material handling vehicles in a manufacturing system is provided. The manufacturing system is operable to perform fabrication processes on a plurality of loads. The method includes identifying at least one idle materi... | 11/08/2011 |
| 8050963 | Method of assessing a parking fee A method for assessing fees for parking is disclosed. The method includes determining the length of a vehicle and assessing a parking fee based upon that vehicle length. The disclosed method may also include marking at least a portion of the selected parking area in... | 11/01/2011 |
| 8027872 | Passenger transportation system and method for obtaining tickets in such a system A method for obtaining tickets for journeys in a passenger transportation system (VSY) which comprises stations (S11 . . . S00) for entering and/or leaving transport means (VM1, VM2) of the system (VSY) for journeys between the stations (... | 09/27/2011 |
| 7996258 | Computer system and method for statewide or other jurisdiction registering and monitoring of vehicle locations A computer system and a method as a part of the registration and/or inspection system of a state or other jurisdiction results in the assignment of a vehicle identification code to each vehicle and notification to the registrant to take the vehicle to an inspection/... | 08/09/2011 |
| 7970644 | Electronic toll management and vehicle identification Identifying a vehicle in a toll system includes accessing image data for a first vehicle and obtaining license plate data from the accessed image data for the first vehicle. A set of records is accessed. Each record includes license plate data for a vehicle. The lic... | 06/28/2011 |
| 7966215 | Combination reservation and navigation system and method A combination reservation and navigation system includes a reservation communication device and a customer communication device. The reservation communication device provides the reservation information to various customer communication devices associated with custo... | 06/21/2011 |
| 7941337 | Web-based parking and traffic management system and method The present invention is directed to a web-based system and method for managing traffic and congestion associated with large events while decreasing operating costs and increasing event revenues. A user accesses a webpage to purchase a parking pass for a predetermin... | 05/10/2011 |
| 7865391 | Automatic road charging system based only on satellite navigation with guaranteed performance and method for its analysis and design An automatic charging system for charging a vehicle for using an infrastructure delimited by a boundary during a charging period Tc based on Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS) location with guaranteed performance. The system includes an onboard receiver with... | 01/04/2011 |
| 7860376 | Content delivery apparatus and content reproduction apparatus A server apparatus 20 that is connected, through a communication network 11, to a mobile terminal 40 for reproducing a content and to a ticket gate machine 30. The ticket gate machine 30 detects that a user's entrance into a statio... | 12/28/2010 |
| 7818204 | Traffic control system with road tariff depending on the congestion level A vehicular traffic control server includes monitoring means, tariff adjusting means in communication with the monitoring means, and notifying means in communication with the tariff adjusting means. The monitoring means is configured to monitor at least one traffic ... | 10/19/2010 |
| 7774228 | Transferring toll data from a third party operated transport to a user account A system, method, and computer readable medium for transferring toll data from a third party operated transport to a user account comprises, performing a verification of the user account, receiving a service request to transfer tolls incurred by the third party oper... | 08/10/2010 |
| 7742941 | Toll road toll paying method and apparatus using a portable terminal, and a storage medium thereof A particular application is invoked in a cellular phone (an arbitrary one of a plurality of cellular phones if they exist) of a person who is riding in an automobile prior to the passage of a gate at an entry/exit of a toll road. The cellular phone in which the appl... | 06/22/2010 |
| 7734500 | Multiple RF read zone system A multizone RF read/write system for conducting transactions with vehicles traveling at high speeds. A first RF read zone is created, preferably by use of a first gantry that extends over at least one lane and contains at least one RF source that creates a large pow... | 06/08/2010 |
| 7725348 | Multilane vehicle information capture system A system and method for accurate express tolling of highway vehicles. A multilane tolling system comprises a tolling (MVIC) unit that collects information from tolling subsystems arranged to take various vehicle measurements. Preferably, an intelligent vehicle ident... | 05/25/2010 |
| 7676392 | Electronic toll management Identifying a vehicle in a toll system includes accessing a set of toll transaction entries. Each entry in the set designates a toll transaction between a vehicle and the toll system and includes a transaction descriptor and a transaction time stamp. A series of tol... | 03/09/2010 |
| 7630918 | Dual toll system A charging device (BEV) on an vehicle (FAR), for a dual toll system (SYS), is capable of receiving positional data from a position determining system (PES), concerning the actual location of the vehicle (FAR) and to calculate location co-ordinates (OKO) for the vehi... | 12/08/2009 |
| 7617120 | Multiple client field device data acquisition and storage A system is provided for acquiring and storing field information, comprising field devices operable to gather field information and receive updated file information. The field devices may be placed in cradles, which facilitate the transfer of the field and file info... | 11/10/2009 |
| 7587332 | Directed autoload of contactless stored value card within a transportation system According to the invention, a method for processing credit for a contactless smart card is disclosed. In one step, the contactless smart card is uniquely recognized at a first location. The contactless smart card is capable of recording the credit or debit that affe... | 09/08/2009 |
| 7567920 | On-line authorization in access environment A method for allowing on-line authorization in an access environment. The method includes receiving a request for access to a location at a gate access device from a user. After receiving the request for access to the location, an authorization request message is ge... | 07/28/2009 |
| 7567919 | Vehicle-onboard ETC apparatus A vehicle-onboard ETC apparatus capable of conducting ETC information communication includes a vehicle speed detector for detecting a speed of a motor vehicle which passes through a toll gate station equipped with an ETC system, a communication unit for exchanging E... | 07/28/2009 |
| 7487108 | Vehicle collected fee distributing system An on-vehicle automatic charging apparatus 10 obtains its own position information from GPS signals from GPS satellites 51 to 53, determines on the basis of the position information whether conditions for charging are satisfied, and subtracts a ... | 02/03/2009 |
| 7430517 | System and method for marketing over computer networks A network-based marketing system is disclosed which allows users to obtain real-time, single-source LTL freight services. These services may be branded by an affiliation. The services are preferably provided over the Internet, and accessed via web browser software i... | 09/30/2008 |
| 7428302 | System and method for real-time, personalized, dynamic, interactive voice services for information related to existing travel schedule A system and method for creation and automatic deployment of personalized, dynamic and interactive voice services relating to subscriber travel, including information derived from on-line analytical processing (OLAP) systems. More specifically, the invention relates... | 09/23/2008 |
| 7424968 | Method and apparatus for public street parking using RF and RFID technology Method and apparatus for monitoring and regulating public street parking using RF and RFID technology including: tracking expired parking tickets and illegally parked vehicles and identifying parked vehicles using parking ticket from another location. The apparatus ... | 09/16/2008 |
| 7421704 | System and method for identifying and generating business events A system for identifying business events is provided. The system includes a store of business process policies, and a business process manager operative to define and process the business process policies. The system further includes an event manager. The event mana... | 09/02/2008 |
| 7415510 | System for indexing pedestrian traffic A system and a method for indexing pedestrian traffic are disclosed. Traffic information is gathered from counter units (30, 31) placed at entrances in provider malls, retail stores, or other locations where pedestrians may be counted. The counters give daily... | 08/19/2008 |
| 7407097 | Toll fee system and method A toll fee tracking system comprising a toll authority adapted to collect data associated with at least one toll fee tracking device and a toll rental entity adapted to communicate with the toll authority and a third part entity. The toll rental entity further acts ... | 08/05/2008 |
| 7398924 | Variable rate toll system A method and system are provided in which average vehicle speeds of tolled and non-tolled road segments between two locations are monitored and saved for reference in providing dynamic adjustment of the toll amount to be charged for use of the tolled segment in orde... | 07/15/2008 |
| 7392227 | Prepaid available number-of-times-of-unitary-use storage medium for making use of pay services, initial value-setting system and device, and operating system An initial value-setting system (10) for setting the initial available numbers of times of unitary use (P) of prepaid available number-of-times-of-unitary-use storage media (8) for making use of a certain toll or pay service, the initial value-setting ... | 06/24/2008 |
| 7382275 | Mobile enforcement reader A mobile enforcement reader (MER) includes an antenna, a reader coupled to receive signals from the antenna and a control/display unit (CDU) coupled to the reader. The CDU selects a receive direction and processes signals provided thereto from the reader. When the M... | 06/03/2008 |
| 7382278 | Parked vehicle location system A parked vehicle location system including a plurality of detectors, where each detector is operative to detect whether or not a vehicle is present in at least one of a plurality of parking spaces, and provide a notification characterizing the detection, and parking... | 06/03/2008 |
| 7382280 | Parking violation recording system and method A parking violation recording system capable of recording violations based on the location of a violating vehicle, is provided. The system includes at least one camera located on a mass transit vehicle, oriented so that it is capable of viewing a violating vehicle a... | 06/03/2008 |
