System and Apparatus for Collecting and Distributing Voluntary Environmental Impact Offset Payments on Fuel Purchases at Point of Sale
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    发明申请
    System and Apparatus for Collecting and Distributing Voluntary Environmental Impact Offset Payments on Fuel Purchases at Point of Sale 审中-公开
    在销售点收集和分配自愿环境影响抵消支付燃料采购的系统和设备

    公开(公告)号:US20080249965A1

    公开(公告)日:2008-10-09

    申请号:US12049227

    申请日:2008-03-14

    IPC分类号: G06F17/00

    CPC分类号: G06Q30/0603 G06Q50/06

    摘要: Systems and methods are described for collecting and distributing environmental impact offset payments at the point of sale of a fuel. An exemplary method presents a user interface at a point of sale of a purchase of a fuel, receives via the user interface a user-selection indicating an intention of the user to pay an environmental impact offset fee associated with the purchase, presents a choice to the user of making a custom offset payment or of buying a fuel that has the offset fee included in the price of the fuel, and calculates a custom offset payment for the purchase. The custom offset payment can be based on such considerations as an energy equivalency of the fuel purchased, volume or weight of the fuel being purchased, fuel type, fuel grade, e.g., octane level, oxygenation level, temperature of the fuel, fuel composition, climatic data, regional variation in fuel composition, efficiency of a vehicle receiving the fuel, pollution control capability of the vehicle receiving the fuel, and life-cycle environmental impacts of fuels, such as costs for extraction, processing, delivery, and combustion.

    摘要翻译: 描述了在燃料销售点收集和分配环境影响抵消支付的系统和方法。 示例性方法在购买燃料的销售点处呈现用户界面,经由用户界面接收指示用户支付与购买相关的环境影响抵消费用的意图的用户选择,向 用户进行自定义的抵消支付或购买燃料价格中包含抵消费用的燃料,并计算购买的定制抵消支付。 定制抵消支付可以基于以下考虑:所购买的燃料的能量等价物,所购燃料的体积或重量,燃料类型,燃料等级,例如辛烷值,氧合水平,燃料温度,燃料组成, 气候数据,燃料组成的区域变化,接收燃料的车辆的效率,接收燃料的车辆的污染控制能力以及燃料的生命周期环境影响,例如提取,处理,运送和燃烧的成本。