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Non-stop toll collection system and method
   
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US Patent 6459385
Issued Date
October 1, 2002
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A non-stop toll collection system has a plurality of road-side radio apparatuses having mutually different radio communication regions, which transmit identification signals responsive to the installation locations thereof, a vehicle-mounted apparatus, which receives an identification signal, records a communication log for each road-side radio apparatus, in response to the identification signal, and transmits the communication log, wherein each of the plurality of road-side radio apparatuses receives the communication log and wherein, in the case in which the communication log indicates that another road-side radio apparatus and the vehicle-mounted apparatus have already communicated, the vehicle-mounted apparatus is instructed to perform billing processing.
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Owner
NEC Corporation (Tokyo,JP)
Published
October 1, 2002
Application Number
09/865,486
Filed
May 29, 2001
US Classification
340/928   340/933 340/935
Int'l Classification
G07B   15/00   (20060101)   G08G   1/017   (20060101)  
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May 30, 2000 [JP] 2000-159602
USPTO Field of Search
340/928   340/933   340/935   340/937   340/988   701/213   701/216   705/417  
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