Patent ID: 8433471
Filing Date: 2013-04-30
Classification: B60L,G06Q,G07F,Y02T,Y04S

Abstract:
1. A pre-filling vehicle data check method, comprising: receiving, at a financial institution, an authorization request from a filling station for initiating a filling event, the authorization request including a financial code and filling station identification information; recognizing, via a computing device at the financial institution, that the financial code is associated with at least one of a vehicle identification number or a station identification associated with a vehicle, thereby identifying the vehicle; transmitting, from the computing device at the financial institution, a revised authorization request to a computing device at a data center in selective communication with the vehicle and the financial institution, the revised authorization request including the at least one of the vehicle identification number or the station identification and the filling station identification information; identifying a parameter of the vehicle via the computing device at the data center, the parameter being a fuel-related parameter when the filling station identification information indicates that the filling station is a fuel pump and the parameter being a charge-related parameter when the filling station identification information indicates that the filling station is a charge dispenser; comparing the parameter with i) an other parameter of the vehicle, or ii) a parameter of the filling station; and transmitting, from the computing device at the data center, an authorization or denial of the filling event based at least upon the comparison.