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6345766 |
Methods and apparatus for providing a prepaid, remote memory customer account for the visually impaired
The present invention includes a prepaid telephone calling card for use by the visually impaired. A braille printer is configured to print a wallet-sized, plastic prepaid telephone calling card...
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6344803 |
Roadside radio apparatus
A weather-resistant radio apparatus for use at, for example, a toll booth, for transmitting data to a vehicle-mounted unit and for receiving data therefrom. The apparatus operates in a manner...
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6344804 |
Vehicle-onboard ETC apparatus and method with visible/audible ETC-relevant information messaging
A vehicle-onboard ETC apparatus mounted on a motor vehicle which informs a driver of ETC-relevant information interchanged with an ETC facility installed at a toll gate via an image as well as a...
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6340934 |
Vehicle-relevant onboard ETC-information communication control apparatus
An ETC-relevant information communication control system designed for limiting ETC-relevant information communication between an ETC communication equipment of a toll gate provided on or along a...
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6339384 |
Toll booth credit device
A device for automatically paying a toll for a vehicle passing through a toll booth. The toll payment device includes a transmitting device and a switch. The transmitting device includes a receiver...
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6337639 |
Toll collection apparatus and toll collection method
A toll collection method of a toll collection apparatus that is jointly installed with a wireless toll collection system for the toll collection is to receive the vehicle data of a vehicle of which...
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6328210 |
Card for driver and traffic-related business conducting apparatus and method using the same
An IC card for the operators of vehicles in traffic, with which a traffic-related business conducting apparatus is used, and a method using the same are provided. The card includes a data memory...
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6323775 |
Method, system and apparatus for proximity-based recharge notification
An apparatus, system and method notifies a user of a low battery condition when the remaining battery capacity of a portable electronic device, such as a mobile station, pager, portable computer,...
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6313737 |
Centralized transponder arbitration
A system and method to store a sequence of data records relating to attributes of interactions between fuel dispensers and tags. The data records may be stored on the tag or at a location remote...
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6298013 |
Device for monitoring the travel time of mail shipments
A device for monitoring the travel time of mail shipments and including a motion sensor, a memory for compiling the measured motion values, an electronic evaluation unit and a current supply. The...
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6285916 |
Multi-stage parcel tracking system
A delivery tracking system for tracking parcels during an internal state of delivery within an organization after receipt of the parcel from a parcel delivery service. The system utilizes an...
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6278935 |
Method and system for providing instructions about tollways with a navigation system
A navigation system provides a user thereof with warnings or advisories about toll gates that require exact change. The warnings or advisories are provided when the navigation system calculates a...
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6266609 |
Parking space detection
A method for detecting information on occupied parking space in a traffic network, in particular a town, uses a parking space detection control center. Parking space information relating to a...
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6263316 |
Automated process for retailing to a vehicle occupant
The invention is a method and apparatus for the automated retailing of refreshments and other basic consumer products to a vehicle occupant as the vehicle passes through a toll station having an...
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6259376 |
Tolling apparatus
In a tolling apparatus including first and second vehicle sensors successively arranged along a lane of a toll way, and a communication unit having a communication area on the lane arranged to...
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6252523 |
Method and a system for registering vehicle fees
A method and system for registering vehicle fees by means of radio communication between stationary toll collection facilities in a toll border (1, 2) of a main zone and communication equipments in...
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6252524 |
Vehicle-mounted unit for a toll collection system
A vehicle-mounted unit for a toll collection system for automatically charging a toll comprises a communication zone determining means for determining if the vehicle is within a toll collection...
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6249217 |
Method for retrieving vehicular collateral
In accordance with the present invention, there is provided a method of securing collateral for a loan when indicated by a loan status wherein the collateral is a vehicle. The method provides for...
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6234390 |
Process for acquiring and/or paying a fee for exhaust pollutants and a motor vehicle with an exhaust pollutant set which operates using this process
A process is disclosed for determining and/or paying a compensation for pollutants in the exhaust fumes of a combustion unit (1). The pollutants in the exhaust fumes are determined by at least one...
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6232877 |
Security system
A monitoring system 10 is provided which includes a primary electronic tag 12, a secondary electronic tag 16, reading apparatus 20, and a comparator 26. The primary electronic tag 12 includes...
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6229445 |
RF identification process and apparatus
An RF identification system, including an identification tag having a unique RF signature, a source for generating RF energy, and a detector for reading the signature when the identification tag is...
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6218963 |
Time management system for passing vehicles
When a vehicle enters a tollhouse and is detected with a vehicle detector, a fixed station transmits a communication link request to a mobile station of the vehicle via an antenna to thereby start...
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6213396 |
Method and system for data transfer
A method for data transfer for various applications between a on board unit (OBU), which comprises a processor, memory means and at least one interface to an external entitiy. A sequence of...
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6211777 |
System and method for automatic information exchange between vehicles involved in a collision
A method for exchanging information between vehicles involved in or near a collision site. When a collision is sensed by one vehicle, a message is transmitted from the one vehicle to at least one...
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6195648 |
Loan repay enforcement system
A system to encourage on time repayment of loans includes electronic apparatus coupled to a critical system of certain equipment; for example, the ignition system of an automobile. Apparatus...
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6195019 |
Vehicle classifying apparatus and a toll system
A class of a vehicle (VHC) is judged from distance data obtained by scanning on a lane with at least a laser beam in the longitudinal direction LD of the lane, wherein the scanning line may be...
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6191705 |
Radio frequency highway management system
Traffic management or enforcement is performed through the use of a monitor transponder in the environs of an RF highway toll collection system. When normally operating transponders communicate...
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6185501 |
Methods and apparatus for loading or modifying a vehicle database from a remote computer via a communications network and a fuel or current dispenser
Method and apparatus providing supplementary navigation data to be used with a vehicular navigation system. The supplementary navigation data can be superimposed over primary navigation data on a...
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6182893 |
Customer retail apparatus having multiple card reader capability
A system for recording a credit or debit transaction on a fuel dispensing apparatus. The system comprises a primary card reader (PCR) for receiving data from a magnetic strip card situated on the...
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6166659 |
Toll collecting system and method including determination of a towed vehicle
The toll collecting system includes a first detector and a second detector which are sequentially arranged in the moving direction of vehicles passing on the traffic lane for collecting charges and...
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6163278 |
Electronic locating system for locating vehicles at assembly plants
A system for electronically locating particular vehicles from within a large plurality of vehicles parked on a holding lot of an assembly plant. A control system transmits a signal encoded with a...
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6158658 |
System and method for matching passengers and their baggage
A system and method for enhancing passenger security in the travel industry by matching passengers with their baggage through storage of images of passengers and their baggage and other textual...
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6158656 |
Final accommodation device for power-source drop
A method and apparatus for enabling a processor to execute processing routine even if a power-source voltage drop occurs during processing. When an ignition key switch 102 is closed, voltage VB is...
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6158655 |
Vehicle mounted remote transaction interface system
A vehicle mounted remote transaction interface system for communicating with a remote transaction unit for transactions such as a bank transaction with a bank teller unit or a drive-through...
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6157321 |
Vehicle data acquisition system
A data acquisition system is disclosed where a first communication device transmits a transmitted signal to a second communication device. The second communication device encodes the transmitted...
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6142372 |
Tractor/trailer having bar code thereon and a GPS receiver for tracking and logging purposes
A tractor and trailer tracking system is provided including a plurality of tractor/trailers at least one of which has a bar code positioned thereon. Also included is at least one checkpoint post...
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6138912 |
Vehicle identification system and method using signal arrival angle measurement
A communication vehicle identification apparatus includes first and second radio communication units, a directional finding unit, a vehicle classification unit, and a vehicle identification unit....
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6140941 |
Open road cashless toll collection system and method using transponders and cameras to track vehicles
A cashless toll collection system and method that detects vehicles using transponders for prepaid customers and cameras for casual or non-transponder equipped vehicles. The system has a plurality...
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6130626 |
Mobile unit support system and mobile unit detection device and a system
A mobile unit support system has a mobile unit and a plurality of sources to be detected installed along a route of movement of said mobile unit, characterized in that said mobile unit includes a...
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6126203 |
Machine-readable checks
A machine-readable check comprising a check and a machine-readable image block printed on the check. Preferably, the image block is a two-dimensional print code.
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6128604 |
Card holder
A card holder allows the bearer of an IC card to check the information recorded in the IC card at any time and with ease even if the IC card has a surface that is not fit to be provided with a...
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6119096 |
System and method for aircraft passenger check-in and boarding using iris recognition
A system and method for automated aircraft boarding uses an iris recognition system for check-in and boarding. The passenger is enrolled once and assigned an account number. The passenger...
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6112981 |
Bar code reader for a fuel dispenser
A system and method to adapt a fuel dispenser and related facilities to accept bar coded cards in addition to or instead of magnetic strip cards. A standard bar code reader is used in conjunction...
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6112989 |
Mobile check-in station and method of use
In a mobile passenger check-in or gate area station, the combination comprising a mobile cart having ambulatory structure, at least one printer stored in or at the cart and accessible for printing...
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6109520 |
Method for avoiding fraud on a taximeter or tachograph
A method and device for avoiding fraud on a Taximeter or Tachograph, by connecting an auxiliary generator between the censor and the Taximeter or Tachograph. The signal which is applied to the...
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6109525 |
Method and device for registering vehicles in a road toll facility
A system and method of registering vehicles in a road toll facility is provided with radio transmitter and receiver equipment (7) for microwaves arranged to communicate with vehicle units (12)...
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6109529 |
Bar code identification and record assembly
A bar code identification record assembly suitable for associating an identification code with a code recipient and for maintaining an independent record of the identification code associated with...
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6102285 |
Parking meter system
A parking metering system where the metering device is maintained within the vehicle for external inspection by a parking control person, the metering device in one embodiment having a display...
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6101477 |
Methods and apparatus for a travel-related multi-function smartcard
Methods and apparatus for a smartcard system are provided which securely and conveniently integrate important travel-related applications. In one embodiment, a smartcard system includes a...
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6098879 |
Fuel dispensing system providing customer preferences
The present invention is a fueling system for automatically providing predefined customer preferences during a fueling operation. These preferences are typically selected by a customer and...
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