Mobile device transport parking notification and movement tracking
AssigneeOpen Invention Network, LLC
InventorDavid Gerard Ledet
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Abstract
Tracking movements of mobile devices may provide insight into parking space availability for transports deemed to be associated with those mobile devices. One example method of operation may include tracking movements of mobile devices within a predefined geographical area, identifying a first movement of a first mobile device as being limited to a predetermined threshold distance, identifying a second movement of the first mobile device as having a movement speed that is greater than a movement speed of the first movement, and designating the mobile device as being inside a transport leaving a parking spot.
Claims20
A method of identifying a parking status of a first transport containing a mobile device, the method comprising:
- trading movements of one or more mobile devices, associated with one or more transports, within a predefined geographical area;
- identifying a first movement path and a speed of the mobile device associated with the first transport along a first movement path by tracking location coordinates associated with the mobile device;
- identifying a second movement path and a speed of the mobile device associated with the first transport along the second movement path by tracking location coordinates associated with the mobile device;
- and
- identifying that the first transport has left a parking spot within the predefined geographical location based on the identified speed of the mobile device along the second movement path being greater than the identified speed of the mobile device along the first movement path.
An apparatus to identify a parking status of a first transport containing a mobile device, the apparatus comprising:
- a processor configured to:
- track movements of one or more mobile devices, associated with one or more transports, within a predefined geographical area,
- identify a first movement path and a speed of the mobile associated with the first transport device along a first movement path by tracked location coordinates associated with the mobile device;
- identify a second movement path and a speed of the mobile device associated with the first transport along the second movement path by tracked location coordinates associated with the mobile device;
- and
- identify that the first transport has left a parking spot within the predefined geographical location based on the identified speed of the mobile device along the second movement path being greater than the identified speed of the mobile device along the first movement path.
A non-transitory computer readable storage medium configured to store instructions that when executed by a processor causes the processor to perform method steps of identifying a parking status of a first transport containing a mobile device:
- tracking movements of one or more mobile devices, associated with one or more transports, within a predefined geographical area;
- identifying a first movement path and a speed of the mobile device associated with the first transport along a first movement path by tracking location coordinates associated with the mobile device;
- identifying a second movement path and a speed of the mobile device associated with the first transport along the second movement path by tracking location coordinates associated with the mobile device;
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- identifying that the first transport has left a parking spot within the predefined geographical location based on the identified speed of the mobile device along the second movement path being greater than the identified speed of the mobile device along the first movement path.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.