PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16053970
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-08
Publication Date: 2020-02
Patent Classification: ["null", "null"]

Abstract:
Methods, server, devices and registered terminals for requiring approval of toll charges are provided. A server receives, from a fixed communication device at a toll booth location, a tollway transponder identifier of a vehicle tollway transponder on a vehicle. The server determines whether a registered terminal is associated with the tollway transponder identifier. Responsive to determining that the registered terminal is associated with the tollway transponder identifier, a toll approval request message is transmitted to the registered terminal, which sends a response message back to the server. The server determines if a location of the registered terminal is within a defined distance from the toll booth location. Responsive to the location of the registered terminal being within the defined distance, the server triggers a toll charge against an account associated with the tollway transponder identifier when the response message indicates approval of the toll.

Claim (Index 14):
A server device comprising:\n a processor and a memory coupled to the processor, wherein the memory stores computer program instructions that are executed by the processor to perform operations comprising:\n receiving, from a fixed communication device at a toll booth location, a tollway transponder identifier of a vehicle tollway transponder on a vehicle; \n responsive to determining that a registered terminal is associated with the tollway transponder identifier, transmitting a toll approval request message to the registered terminal; \n responsive to receiving a response message from the registered terminal to the toll approval request message, performing:\n determining if a location of the registered terminal is within a defined distance of a toll booth location; and \n responsive to the location of the registered terminal being within the defined distance, triggering a toll charge against an account associated with the tollway transponder identifier when the response message indicates approval of the toll charge; \n \n determining an entry location where a second vehicle tollway transponder of a second vehicle entered a tollway system, served by the server device, that has toll booths at exit locations of the tollway system and toll booths located at non-exit locations of the tollway system; \n determining whether the second vehicle tollway transponder entered the tollway system at the entry location with a pattern over time that satisfies a trusted traveler rule; responsive to determining that the trusted traveler rule is satisfied:\n allowing the second vehicle tollway transponder to travel through at least some of the toll booths at the non-exit locations without triggering transmission of a second toll approval request message to a second registered terminal that is determined to be associated with the second vehicle tollway transponder; \n \n receiving a vehicle exiting message from a toll booth transponder indicating that the second vehicle is nearing one of the toll booths located at one of the exit locations of the tollway system; \n responsive to receiving the vehicle exiting message:\n transmitting the second toll approval request message to the second registered terminal, the second toll approval request message having a request to approve an accumulated toll for the toll booths the second vehicle transponder traveled through from the entry location to the one of the exit locations; \n triggering a charge for the accumulated toll against the account associated with the second vehicle transponder responsive to receiving a second response message indicating approval of the accumulated tolls; and \n preventing a charge for the accumulated toll against the account associated with the second vehicle tollway transponder responsive to the second response message indicating lack of approval of the accumulated tolls.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 35.0
- Percentile: 96.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.53226
- Patent Class: nan
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['11670307', '15254110', '14091678', '13904645', '14770906']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.5340133312118963
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5003751125070115
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.5306495093414079
- Mean Citation Score: 235.763286
- Max Citation Score: 257.2127
- Similarity Product: 180.5907023357392

Labels:
- Claim Label 101: 1
- Claim Label 102: 1
- Claim Label 103: 1
- Claim Label 112: 1
- Combined Label: 1
- Label 101 Adjusted: 1

Dataset: test