CN1129094C - Method for automatic debiting - Google Patents

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CN1129094C
CN1129094C CN99804057A CN99804057A CN1129094C CN 1129094 C CN1129094 C CN 1129094C CN 99804057 A CN99804057 A CN 99804057A CN 99804057 A CN99804057 A CN 99804057A CN 1129094 C CN1129094 C CN 1129094C
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Abstract

A method for the automatic debiting of charges for a vehicle (V1, V2) in a system where a vehicular debiting device (10) has contactless communication with a central system (C), where the debiting device (10) is equipped with a first identity associated with the vehicle (V1, V2) and where the debiting device (10) is, in addition, designed to store a second identity coupled to a debit account, and in the event involving levying of a charge for the vehicle (V1-V2) the first identity is sent from the debiting device (10) to the central system (C), so that the vehicle (V1, V2) can be identified, furthermore even the second identity is sent from the debiting device (10), at which a debit account can be identified, and that the central system (C) debits the charge to the debit account and if debiting the debit account fails an account linked to the first identity is debited instead.

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Method for automatic debiting
Technical field
This method makes in an application of using automobile-used record keeping device to carry out message exchange between with center system by contactless communication as defrayment can use a sign carrier that is used to the expense of keeping accounts of being selected by someone, and this sign carrier needn't be suitable for this application specially.
Background technology
Contactless communication is a kind of method that becomes in information transmission and become more and more important.Main telecommunication media is based on microwave technology.Relate to the message exchange of vehicular traffic than one of important use field.In this case, communication record keeping device and fixing roadside unit or exactly be to carry out under its help of antenna in car.Message exchange partly comprises automatic record keeping expense for example toll and parking fee.Handling these expenses has two kinds of basic skills, also can adopt both combinations:
-keep accounts in advance or afterwards.In the method, with the user of automobile, automobile or permit the accounts that the user person that uses this account is associated and discern by the exclusive sign of record keeping device (ID), be sent in the roadside unit then, and provide it to the center system of handling described accounts successively.Usually, be sent to center system from roadside unit regularly about the keep accounts time of operation generation and the information of total cost.
-directly keep accounts by ICC (smart card), can be with in the record keeping device on this card insertion car when considering payment transaction in advance.
-combined method is included in the transaction of carrying out in the smart card, only is used to supply with the automobilist and confirms that immediately expense keeps accounts and pay total value." real " transaction is taking place in the accounts associated with card by center system.Just in case, should be foundation with account owing to inconsistent when producing query between account and the smart card.
Particulars about the electronic money circulation can find in for example patent document US-A-4.303.904 (chasek) and SE-9504558-9 (Hjelmare etc.).
May need to use the card (ICC) selected by someone sign carrier in many cases as the record keeping expense.This class example is:
A) taxi and some commercial special bus: many cabdrivers do not have car that they open and for hirely drive the possessory car of taxi or rent the possessory car of taxi for themselves business.Equally, many truck drivers does not have the car that they opened.In these cases, usually require the expense with accumulative total, for example toll is remembered and is not remembered on the possessory account of car the carrier.The carrier should use his card to come defrayment (a1) by the record keeping device that is associated with car.Under the taxi situation, an additional requirement is that the expense that will charge in the card is added on the riding fee of being born by the taxi passenger, and the record of these expenses is appeared on passenger's the receipt.
B) when using rental car, taxi company was concerned about be on the car record keeping expense by rental car person payment (b1).For for commercial purposes and the people of rental car preferably is included in the record keeping expense in the rate naturally, so that can prove the expense (b2) that the expense that is used for employer and reimbursemen have taken place.
C) be used for the people of commercial object for private car, preferably can guarantee naturally the expense note is used for the employer's of concrete travelling account (c1) at those them.Equally, the car owner is concerned about is can hire out his car and do not cause expense note such as toll on his account, and the note in generation is (c2) on car steering person's account.
The problem of narrating above can solve by using a common debit card technically.For the needs of safe and reliable reason and high speed transmission data, this method is placed these requirements on the card and record keeping device with up-to-date technology level, in the hope of obtaining the welcome substitute of a less expensive.Describe below one the method that solves described problem and do not comprise any actual additional expense is provided.
Summary of the invention
According to one object of the present invention, a kind of method for automatic debiting that is used for vehicle expense in a system is proposed, in this system, automobile-used record keeping device carries out contactless communication with center system, automobile-used record keeping device is equipped with first sign that is associated with vehicle and is designed to store second sign that is associated with the debit, it is characterized in that carrying out the following step under the occasion of imposing vehicle expense relating to: first sign is sent to center system by the record keeping device, thereby can discern vehicle, send second sign by the record keeping device equally, on described record keeping device, can discern the debit, center system is with the expense account that debts, if can not debt the account, then charge to an account who links with first sign for it.
According to described purpose, together with being the viewpoint that in time requires expense of payment and total cost, the present invention includes not only and will mail to center system with the sign of the related record keeping device of car, but also one other identification is mail to center system with the form of identification of the sign carrier that is associated with the user of vehicle, sign carrier herein is made of a for example sheet smart card.Thereby, can use a sign carrier of selecting by someone.Sign by vehicle record keeping device is provided to be to set up the assurance of the expense of keeping accounts, and the sign carrier do not required secret, and it can be someone card selecting for example.If the owner of sign carrier is taken place, the card holder in the last example, refusal was accepted the expense of note in his account afterwards, if or can not enter item in an account the device accounts associated of then charging to for it and keep accounts.Use this method can solve the problem of speaking of in the introduction of front.
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Fig. 1 represents that one is used for collecting automatically the general system diagram of toll being suitable for occasion according to the method for the object of the invention.Be illustrated in the surveillance equipment of a charge station on the road of a multilane among the figure.
Fig. 2 represents how record keeping device, roadside unit and a center system that is associated with vehicle constitutes, and the example of how to communicate by letter between these unit.
Embodiment
As an example of the expense of keeping accounts automatically from vehicle, under the help of accompanying drawing, describe one and collect the system of vehicle that allow automatically through the toll of traffic route or commuter zone.Surveillance equipment in the system comprises vehicle V1, the record keeping device among the V2 and a roadside unit 3.The record keeping device comprises:
-one is contained in automobile V1, is used for first communicator (1) that the roadside unit (3) of same charge station (4) carries out local communication (2) among the V2.First communicator (1) can comprise a transponder that uses this locality communication (2) usefulness of microwave, or uses beyond the microwave for example analogue means of ultrasound wave, photoinduction transmission etc. of transmission medium.In the occasion of using microwave as transmission medium, preferably use DSRC (special-purpose short haul connection).Can be used as vehicle V1, other signal source of the transmission medium of the local[remote between V2 and the roadside unit (3) is UWB ripple (ultra wide band radios), ultrasound wave, infrared light, laser or normal optical,
-one calculating with/or deduct the first processor (5) of the usefulness of communicating by letter between every toll and guided vehicle internal element and the external world,
The memory cell (6) of the data of the user's that-one storage for example is associated with vehicle sign and the data such as various taxes of calculating described toll.User's sign comprises a vehicles identifications, a fund sign or a repeater identification,
-read and charge to the reader (13) of sign carrier 14 (being exemplified as an a sheet smart card herein) usefulness.
Manpower charge station (4) comprising:
-one has with described vehicle V1, and first communicator (1) among one of V2 carries out the roadside unit (3) of the second communication device (16) of local communication (2) usefulness,
-be used to reproduce vehicle V1, the feature of V2 is number plate and be used to detect the visual device (17a-17c) and the suitable light fixture of vehicle physical form for example, comprise the essential presentation manager (18) that identification herd number or equivalent features are used with OCR function (light characteristic identification)
In roadside unit (3), determine vehicle V1 and V2 second processor (19) that the position is used in manpower charge station for-one, according to the information that under following help, measures:
A) this locality between the second communication device (16) among the vehicle V1, first communicator (1) among the V2 and roadside unit (3) communicate by letter (2),
B) from the information of presentation manager (18) and
C) by from the position that in the measurement of carrying out under the help of communicator (1,16), obtains with related from the both information of presentation manager (18),
-one is used for storing the memory cell (20) about the data of position of communicating by letter by this locality between first and second communicator (1 and 16) that (2) obtain in roadside unit,
Be applicable in-the roadside unit (3) will record data transmission (22) to the equipment (21) of center system (for example utilize GSM, WAN or pass through fiber optic network), and
-be used to encrypt between charge station (4) and the center system C encryption device of transmission data.
Except unit above-mentioned, suppose that center system C comprises essential equipment: one the 3rd processor (23), a central memory cell (24), a SAM (Secure Application Module) (25), the communication facilities (26) of communication facilities (21) communication (22) usefulness of same charge station (4) is carried out the data transmission (22) from roadside unit (3) to center system thus.
At one for example in as an example the accounting system, use a sign carrier 14 that is associated with the vehicle user.For simplicity, suggestion sign carrier for example blocks debit card by certain or credit card constitutes.The operation instruction of the sign carrier of the example a-c type of mentioning during the front introduced is as follows, wherein according to the corresponding solution a1-c1 of purpose of the present invention, a2-c2 (sign a, b, c refer to the record keeping example of describing in the part of front " prior art ") expression.Under the situation that sign carrier 14 is made of a sheet smart card; It can be inserted vehicle V1, in the record keeping device 10 of V2, thus the sign that can read this sign carrier 14 from the reader 13 of record keeping device.
(a1) carrier of a carriage contract business uses his card defrayment.If confirming afterwards to remember is blocking on the accounts associated therewith, the payee will for the sign by the record keeping device 10 that is associated with vehicle with the expense note on transportation car owner's account.Whether have the problem of defrayment responsibility to be transferred on one's body the car owner thereby make from the identification carrier, he bear supervision who use certain specific vehicle with when at the responsibility of using, the head it off of should having the ability.
(b1) with (a1) in identical method will be transferred to the unit of taxi about the problem who has a responsibility for paying.The feature of narrating below can obtain a more improved solution.
(c1) can select the card of a company for use for the travel for commercial purpose of private car.Disapprove this transaction if block accounts associated therewith, expense will from the deducting of car owner's (being the employee) with the vehicle accounts associated, in this case, having a program of following the tracks of expense is company and employee's responsibility.Even the feature of narrating below in this case, still can obtain a more improved solution.
(c2), but replace the card of company with driver's card with the method identical with (c1).
By allowing to use a minute book to preserve the transaction made from selected card, the present invention provides a solution to foregoing other problem:
(a2) effect by allowing to have blocked an information carrier if desired, can be transferred to the record on the minute book on the minute book that transports the car owner for the usefulness of postmortem with paying.Equally, can with about the information transfer of record keeping expense to passenger's paying receipt.
(b1 and b2) can shift about the toll of collecting and the information of other expense afterwards, and under the situation of rental car, the expense in company's Payment Card of permission taxi is because at this moment the expense that can will impose when vehicle returns is transferred on the invoice.Nature, this also provides the possibility that proposes bill and directly draw a bill under the situation of travel for commercial purpose.
(c1) be used under the commercial purpose situation at private car, the minute book of card also provides an advantage, because the possibility of the expense that calculating imposed is arranged when automobile turns back to company.
A replacement scheme of above-mentioned way is to replace described card with a keypad, can utilize this keyboard that credit number or equivalent are recorded in the record keeping device of vehicle by vehicle drivers in needs.
This automatic accounting system can be used for collecting toll multiple situation in addition naturally.When such example is included in usually said " sailing into " or " sail through " machine-operated enterprise to the expense of service or goods payment.

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1. the method for automatic debiting that in a system, is used for vehicle expense, in this system, the same center system of automobile-used record keeping device (10) (C) is carried out contactless communication, automobile-used record keeping device (10) is equipped with one and vehicle (V1, V2) first sign that is associated and be designed to store second identifying of being associated with the debit, it is characterized in that relate to impose vehicle (V1, V2) carry out the following step under the occasion of expense:
-by record keeping device (10) with first the sign be sent to center system (C), thereby can discern vehicle (V1, V2),
-send second sign by record keeping device (10) equally, on described record keeping device, can discern the debit,
-center system (C) is the expense account that debts,
If-the account that can not debt then charges to an account who links with first sign for it.
2. according to the method for claim 1, it is characterized in that making record keeping device (10) can visit second sign by a sign carrier (14) being inserted record keeping device (10).
3. according to the method for claim 1, it is characterized in that making record keeping device (10) can visit second sign by the input of the keypad on the usage billing device (10) second sign.
4. according to the method for claim 2, it is characterized in that identifying carrier (14) memory storage is housed, the transaction of being carried out by center system (C) is transfused to this device, make these transaction of carrying out by center system can be read out subsequently, to be used for carrying out the payment transaction between the first sign owner and the second sign owner.
5. according to the method for claim 2, it is characterized in that described sign carrier (14) is the smart card that someone selectes.
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