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US 10,319,234 B1Granted
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 monitoring a predefined area via a sensor, detecting a change via the sensor, comparing the change to a predefined condition stored in memory, determining the change satisfies the predefined condition, and determining a changed parking space status.
Claims17
A method comprising:
- monitoring a predefined area via at least one sensor;
- detecting at least one change via the at least one sensor for a time greater than a threshold time;
- detecting at least one additional change via at least one additional sensor being a different sensor type than the at least one 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;
- determining the at least one change satisfies the predefined set of conditions;
- determining a changed parking space status;
- triggering an alert to be created and sent to a registered device based on the changed parking space status;
- and
- transmitting the alert to the registered device.
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An apparatus comprising:
- a processor configured to
- monitor a predefined area via at least one sensor,
- detect at least one change via the at least one sensor for a time greater than a threshold time,
- detect at least one additional change via at least one additional sensor being a different sensor type than the at least one sensor, wherein the at least one change and the at least one additional change comprise an ordered sequence of changes,
- compare the ordered sequence of changes to a predefined set of conditions stored in memory,
- determine the at least one change satisfies the predefined set of conditions,
- determine a changed parking space status,
- trigger an alert to be created and sent to a registered device based on the changed parking space status;
- and
- transmit the alert to the registered device.
7 more elements
A non-transitory computer readable storage medium configured to store instructions that when executed causes a processor to perform:
- monitoring a predefined area via at least one sensor;
- detecting at least one change via the at least one sensor for a time greater than a threshold time;
- detecting at least one additional change via at least one additional sensor being a different sensor type than the at least one 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;
- determining the at least one change satisfies the predefined set of conditions;
- and
- determining a changed parking space status
- triggering an alert to be created and sent to the registered device based on the changed parking space status;
- and
- transmitting the alert to the registered device.
7 more elements
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.