Patent ID: 8280791

Claim:
A system for billing a driver of a vehicle, the system comprising: a network; a billing server on the network, the billing server including a user account for a user of a first wireless communication device in communication with a smart vehicle, the smart vehicle in communication with the network and a second wireless communication device; and a server logic on the billing server includes instructions that when executed by a server processor perform operations including associating a first unique identifier with a user account, and billing the user account an amount based on a location of the smart vehicle; wherein a client logic on the smart vehicle includes instructions that when executed by a vehicle processor perform operations including retrieving the first unique identifier from the first wireless communication device and a second unique identifier from the second wireless communication device, determining that the first wireless communication device corresponds to a driver of the vehicle, determining the location of the smart vehicle, and transmitting the first unique identifier and the location to the billing server.