Patent ID: 9715682
Date: 2017-07-25
CPC Classifications: B67D,G06Q,G07F

Claim:
1. A system for remotely controlling an operation of a fuel dispensing station comprising: a local device including: the remote server in electronic communication with the local device, a first computing system, a second computing system and a third party system, the remove server configured to: automatically generate identification information containing information identifying the fuel dispensing station from which fuel is desired to be purchased based on the location information of the local device, retrieve a profile associated with the user from the first computing system based on the unique identifier to identify the user; retrieve sensitive information associated with the user from the second computing system based on the profile; transmit the sensitive information associated with the user and a pre-authorization request to the third-party system; receive pre-authorization from the third-party system based on the sensitive information associated with the user in response to transmitting the pre-authorization request to the third-party system; generate and transmit an unlock code to the fuel dispensing station in response to automatically generating the identification information based on the location information, receiving the unique identifier from the local device and receiving the pre-authorization received from the third-party system, wherein transmission of the unlock code causes the fuel dispensing station to switch from a first state, in which the fuel dispensing station cannot dispense fuel to a second state wherein the fuel dispensing station is able to dispense fuel.