VEHICLE PARKING AND MASS TRANSPORT BEACON SYSTEM

    公开(公告)号:US20200250896A1

    公开(公告)日:2020-08-06

    申请号:US15780795

    申请日:2016-12-02

    Applicant: CITIFYD, INC.

    Abstract: A vehicle parking and mass transport beacon system (60) implemented with a beacon device (10) configured as a wireless identifier and authentication mechanism offers a user a capability of bypassing infrastructures of commercial parking lots and facilities, mass transit systems, and taxi services when using them. The beacon system includes a source beacon and a user beacon, the latter of which implemented in a user smart device (36) such as a smartphone. The use of a source beacon and user smart device enables elimination of reliance on a cellular communication connection from the time of the user's grant of permission for action to the time of separation of the user smart device and the beacon by a distance outside the range of connectivity between them. Such elimination of reliance on cellular communication connection avoids delay and communication coverage issues stemming from use of a cellular communication network.

    ELIMINATING USE OF A MOBILE PRINTING DEVICE IN ISSUING A RECORD OF TRANSACTION ACTIVITY INFORMATION

    公开(公告)号:US20220398926A1

    公开(公告)日:2022-12-15

    申请号:US17806272

    申请日:2022-06-10

    Applicant: Citifyd, Inc.

    Abstract: A parking management system identifies vehicles in entrance lanes, exit lanes, or both, of a parking facility and provides a real-time vehicle inventory count. One or more beacons locate point of sale (POS) devices assigned to parking attendants to determine which of them are performing vehicle transactions. Vehicles can be associated with specific transactions, as well as the transaction-authorizing attendant and the barrier gate and vehicle travel lane to which the attendant is assigned. To reduce fraud, this transaction information can be monitored in real time by a web or mobile dashboard and analyzed in real time or upon attendant end-of-shift checkout. The system partly unburdens the parking attendant processing a parking transaction by implementing a method that eliminates need for a mobile printing device in issuing to a vehicle-driving customer a receipt, multiuse pass, or citation or warning.

    TRANSACTION PAYMENT PROCESSING SYSTEM IMPLEMENTING A VIRTUAL EXCHANGE PLATFORM ON WHICH NON-AFFILIATED BUSINESSES PROVIDE TRANSFERABLE CUSTOMER REWARDS

    公开(公告)号:US20200219074A1

    公开(公告)日:2020-07-09

    申请号:US16738881

    申请日:2020-01-09

    Applicant: Citifyd, Inc.

    Inventor: Sohrab Vossoughi

    Abstract: A transaction payment processing system includes a backend transaction system that performs credit and debit processes for multiple user accounts, merchant accounts, and service provider accounts. The backend transaction system is preferably part of backend servers. The transaction payment processing system preferably uses wireless technologies to carry out a method of debiting and crediting multiple ones of each of the user, merchant, and parking service accounts with incremental amounts of money over a set period of time. The transaction payment processing system enables practice of a virtual exchange method of processing transfers of member transaction credits such as, for example, points or monetary units among account holder members of a community of businesses that are allied in support of one another. Transfers of member transaction credits among account holder members stimulates commercial activity by supporting sale of goods and services offered by the members of the community of businesses.

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