Patent ID: 8281990

Claim:
A method of processing transfer rides associated with at least one public transit network, the method comprising: processing a first presentation record, wherein the first presentation record comprises a timestamp and an identifier to a transit account, and wherein the act of processing the first presentation record comprises receiving the first presentation record from a gate; and saving the first presentation record to a database in memory; and processing a second presentation record, wherein the second presentation record comprises a timestamp and an identifier to the transit account, and wherein the act of processing the second presentation record comprises receiving the second presentation record; saving the second presentation record to memory; searching the database for a presentation record corresponding to the transit account identified by the identifier in the second presentation record; finding the first presentation record; determining the first presentation record and the second presentation record comprise an initial presentation and a transfer presentation, wherein the initial presentation and the transfer presentation occur within a predetermined amount of time, and wherein the transfer presentation represents a different transportation than represented by the initial presentation; and accounting for the initial presentation and the transfer presentation.