Patent ID: 6519329
Filing Date: 2003-02-11
Classification: G06Q,G07B,G07F

Abstract:
A vehicle parking system in which the commencement and the termination of a parking period can be communicated over a telephone system by a user for billing to the user's cash card account, said parking system comprising;a parking system computer having a database and means for connecting the computer with a telephone system, wherein the database includes stored information corresponding with data contained on a user's cash card and has associated with the user's cash card data information relating to a user-specific reference; a cash card reader for reading a user's cash card data at the commencement of a business relationship between the user and the parking system, wherein the cash card reader is in communication with the parking system computer database for transmission of the user's cash card data to the database for storage therein; means for providing at the commencement of a business relationship between the user and the parking system a user-specific reference for transmission to the parking system computer, for storage in the computer's database, and for association therein with the user's cash card data for enabling parking by the user by a telephone communication with the parking system computer; wherein the parking system computer includes means for receiving telephone transmissions from a user that include the user's user-specific reference both to commence a parking period and to terminate a parking period, means for validating billing of a parking period to the user's cash card account, means for calculating a parking fee corresponding with the parking period, and means for generating a billing order to the cash card company that issued the user's cash card.