Public telephone terminal for settling parking charges has arrangement enabling user to select terminal function to carry out call or demand parking period, link to management and monitoring center

摘要

The public telephone has an arrangement for conducting pre-paid telephone conversations, an arrangement for accepting payment with coins or cards, an arrangement for outputting receipts, an arrangement enabling the user to select a function of the terminal to carry out a call or demand a parking period, an arrangement for converting the payment into conversation or parking time and an arrangement for communications with a center that manages and monitors the terminal. An independent claim is also included for the following: (a) a method of settling parking time charges for vehicles.