Data processing: financial – business practice – management – or co – Automated electrical financial or business practice or... – Transportation facility access
Reexamination Certificate
2008-12-22
2011-11-08
Hayes, John (Department: 3628)
Data processing: financial, business practice, management, or co
Automated electrical financial or business practice or...
Transportation facility access
C340S905000, C340S425500, C705S014140
Reexamination Certificate
active
08055534
ABSTRACT:
Methods, including service methods, articles of manufacture, systems, articles and programmable devices are provided for charging travel fees or awarding benefits as a function of vehicle occupancy. Variable travel fee schedules include a plurality of different rate values, each rate value associated with ride-sharing service points of a vehicle infrastructure and vehicle occupancy counts. Occupants within a vehicle traveling via a vehicle infrastructure are counted, the counting generating discrete occupant counts correlated with the ride-sharing service points. Subsets of variable travel fee schedule rate values are selected as a function of association with discrete occupant counts and correlated ride-sharing service points. Owners, occupants or other parties associated with the vehicle are accordingly charged a travel fee or awarded a benefit as a function of the rate value subset and an amount of the vehicle traveling.
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“Real-Time Ridesharing Launches on SR 520 to Save Commuters Time, Money,” published by Business Wire Jan. 27, 2011, pp. 1-3.
Ashby Duncan
Hamilton, II Rick A.
Lamba Naveen
Lim Colin Fung Wan
Seaman James W.
Daugherty Patrick J.
Driggs, Hogg, Daugherty & Del Zoppo Co., LPA
Epstein Brian
Hayes John
International Business Machines - Corporation
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