Patent ID: 11907929
Assignee: GEOTOLL INC.
Field: IT methods for management (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G | IPC G

Claim 3:
4. A method, comprising:
receiving at a server a plurality of location reports from a plurality of mobile devices, each of the location reports including a location and a time at which a location fix was performed to obtain the location, wherein each mobile device of the plurality of mobile devices generates the location reports by monitoring a speed of the mobile device based on location fixes provided by a satellite positioning receiver of the mobile device over time, and when the speed of the mobile device is above a threshold speed, obtaining the location and time from the satellite positioning receiver of the mobile device for the location report, and a media access control (MAC) address of a personal area network (PAN) transceiver of a vehicle read by the mobile device at the time of generating the location report using a PAN transceiver of the mobile device, and an indication whether the mobile device is actively connected to the PAN transceiver of the vehicle;
the server evaluating each one of the plurality of location reports to determine whether there is another location report from a different mobile device that correlates to the one of the plurality of location reports being evaluated based on the location and the time indicated in the location reports;
upon the server identifying one or more correlated location reports, the server determining whether the mobile devices that produced the correlated location reports have each read a the vehicle PAN MAC address; and
when it is determined that the mobile devices have each read the the vehicle PAN MAC address, the server applying a business rule to apportion a single toll fee among the mobile devices that have read the common media access control address.