Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Method and apparatus for credit card tracking at pay stations
- Patent Title (中): 付费站信用卡追踪的方法和装置
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Application No.: US13286516Application Date: 2011-11-01
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Publication No.: US08622289B2Publication Date: 2014-01-07
- Inventor: Chris Outwater , William Gibbens Redmann
- Applicant: Chris Outwater , William Gibbens Redmann
- Agent Clifford Kraft
- Main IPC: G07F19/00
- IPC: G07F19/00

Abstract:
An enhancement to a pay station where subscribers can track usage of credit cards or groups of credit cards at parking and other facilities. The subscriber provides a key that can be used with a predetermined hash or encryption algorithm to hash or encrypt every credit card number that enters the system. A database of the coded results for a set of pre-registered credit cards belonging to that subscriber is maintained in the pay station database. Whenever an incoming credit card's coded output matches one of the coded results on the pre-registered list, a log entry can be made in a usage log. The subscriber generally has a list of the coded outputs for each of their pre-registered cards. The subscriber can thus track usage of any of these cards.
Public/Granted literature
- US20120318862A1 Method and Apparatus for Credit Card Tracking at Pay Stations Public/Granted day:2012-12-20
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