Patent ID: 8321265

Claim:
A method for collecting tolls for location usages of a position-fixing on-board unit, which has a unit identifier for identification in a road toll system and a mobile telecommunications unit having a separate mobile telecommunications identifier for identification in a mobile telecommunications network, the method comprising: storing the unit identifier and the mobile telecommunications identifier of the on-board unit as mutually associated data in a control centre of the road toll system; sending position-fix data from the on-board unit, using the mobile telecommunications identifier as sole identification of the on-board unit, to a toll calculation server of the road toll system; calculating location-anonymised toll data from the position-fix data in the toll calculation server; sending the location-anonymised toll data with the mobile telecommunications identifier from the toll calculation server to a control centre of the mobile telecommunications network; charging a user account assigned to the mobile telecommunications identifier in the control centre of the mobile telecommunications network according to the received toll data; sending a confirmation that the account has been charged from the control centre of the mobile telecommunications system to the control centre of the road toll system using the mobile telecommunications identifier; and retrieving the unit identifier associated with the mobile telecommunications identifier and providing the confirmation using the retrieved unit identifier in the control centre of the road toll system.