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

Claim 0:
1. A method, comprising:
receiving at a server a plurality of location reports from a plurality of mobile devices, each location report 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 personal area network transceiver (PAN) media access control (MAC) address of another device read by the mobile device at the time of generating the location report using a PAN transceiver of the mobile device;
evaluating, by the server, each one of the plurality of location reports to determine whether there is another location report from a different mobile device that correlates in location, time, and MAC address to the one of the plurality of location reports being evaluated;
identifying, by the server, another location report from the different mobile device that correlates with the one of the plurality of location reports being evaluated in time, location, and MAC address, and in response the server determining that the different mobile device has read a common MAC address of the one of the plurality of location reports being evaluated; and
in response to identifying the another location report, the server assessing a single toll fee to an account associated with one of the mobile devices and not assessing a toll fee to an account associated with the another mobile device.