Patent ID: 8346598

Claim:
An apparatus for personalization and registration of vehicle devices of different types in a road toll system, comprising: for each type of vehicle device, a respective personalization module that is configured to write personalization data into a vehicle device and generate associated registration data, which contains the personalization data; an interface module common to all personalization modules that is configured to receive the registration data and, following a release request, send the received registration data to a centralized registration database of the road toll system remote from the vehicle devices for storing the registration data; and a testing unit that reads out the personalization data of a personalized but not yet registered vehicle device, checks the registration data generated by the respective personalization module for agreement of the personalization data contained therein with the read-out personalization data, and in case of agreement, sends a release request with respect to said registration data to the interface module, wherein the apparatus is a point-of-sale (PoS) terminal and each of the personalization modules is formed by a combination of a vehicle device type-specific personalization application and a vehicle device type-specific communication interface to the vehicle device.