Transport parking space availability detection
AssigneeOpen Invention Network, LLC
InventorDavid Gerard Ledet
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Abstract
Identifying parking spaces and notifying user devices provides an easy way to reduce traffic and save time for registered users. One example may include activating a sensor to detect at least one status change, monitoring a predefined area for the at least one status change, receiving at least one status change at a first time, receiving at least one additional status change at a second time, comparing the at least one status change and the at least one additional status change to a valid sequence of status changes, determining a valid sequence of status changes has occurred, and transmitting a notification to a registered user device previously registered to receive a notification when the valid sequence of status changes occurs.
Claims20
A method comprising:
- activating a sensor to detect at least one status change;
- monitoring a predefined area for the at least one status change;
- receiving at least one status change at a first time;
- receiving at least one additional status change at a second time, wherein the at least one additional status change is detected via at least one additional sensor being a different sensor type than the sensor, wherein the at least one change and the at least one additional change comprise an ordered sequence of changes;
- comparing the ordered sequence of changes to a predefined set of conditions stored in memory;
- based on the comparing, determining a valid sequence of status changes has occurred;
- and
- transmitting a notification to a registered user device previously registered to receive a notification when the valid sequence of status changes occurs.
An apparatus comprising:
- a processor configured to
- activate a sensor to detect at least one status change,
- monitor a predefined area for the at least one status change,
- a receiver configured to
- receive at least one status change at a first time,
- receive at least one additional status change at a second time, wherein the at least one additional status change is detected via at least one additional sensor being a different sensor type than the sensor, wherein the at least one change and the at least one additional change comprise an ordered sequence of changes, and
- wherein the processor is further configured to
- compare the ordered sequence of changes to a predefined set of conditions stored in memory, and
- based on the comparison, determine a valid sequence of status changes has occurred, and
- a transmitter configured to transmit a notification to a registered user device previously registered to receive a notification when the valid sequence of status changes occurs.
A non-transitory computer readable storage medium configured to store instructions that when executed causes a processor to perform:
- activating a sensor to detect at least one status change;
- monitoring a predefined area for the at least one status change;
- receiving at least one status change at a first time;
- receiving at least one additional status change at a second time, wherein the at least one additional status change is detected via at least one additional sensor being a different sensor type than the sensor, wherein the at least one change and the at least one additional change comprise an ordered sequence of changes;
- comparing the ordered sequence of changes to a predefined set of conditions stored in memory;
- based on the comparing, determining a valid sequence of status changes has occurred;
- and
- transmitting a notification to a registered user device previously registered to receive a notification when the valid sequence of status changes occurs.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.