Patent ID: 11908247
Assignee: TOYOTA MOTOR CREDIT CORPORATION
Field: Control (Instruments)
Classification: CPC G | IPC G

Claim 4:
5. A system for collecting a toll owed by a rental vehicle traveling along a toll road, the system comprising:
a vehicle rental service server;
two or more sensors comprising at least a GPS unit and one or more vehicle cameras mounted to the rental vehicle, the two or more sensors configured to output a signal indicative of a location of the rental vehicle relative to a toll booth; and
a mobile device communicating with the vehicle rental service server via a network interface hardware, wherein the mobile device comprises a rental application, wherein the mobile device is configured to:
receive a rental request to rent the rental vehicle via the rental application;
determine a rental period start time for the rental vehicle based on the rental request;
automatically execute toll payment logic associated with the rental application at the rental period start time to detect a toll payment event throughout the rental period, wherein the toll payment logic causes the mobile device to:
detect, using the two or more sensors, a location of the system relative to the toll booth based on the signal from the GPS unit and by performing object recognition on image data from the one or more cameras to identify the toll booth from the image data;
determine a toll payment event wherein a toll payment is due based on the location of the system relative to the toll booth;
access a rental agreement;
split the toll payment between a renter, an owner, and a driver, based on the rental agreement;
generate an alert with a user interface device of the mobile device that the toll payment is due based on the location of the mobile device relative to the toll booth, wherein the alert provides at least one of a notification of payment of the toll, a selection to pay the toll, and a selection to dispute the toll,
receive a rental end notification from the network interface hardware;
automatically end the toll payment logic in response to receipt of the rental end notification;
generate a payment report for a balance paid; and
transmit the payment report to a toll booth server with the network interface hardware.