System and method for identifying available parking locations
AssigneeApple Inc.
InventorsKjell F. Bronder, Scott M. Herz
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Abstract
Aspects of the present disclosure involve a method for identifying parking locations. The current disclosure presents a technique for identifying parking locations within a geographical area. In one embodiment, a database is populated and stores information associated with parking locations. The database can include coordinates associated with parking locations and other relevant attributes. In another embodiment, the information from the database may be used to identify and present a visual representation and route to available parking locations.
Claims18
A method comprising:
- determining a geographic area associated with a final destination of a vehicle;
- querying a repository for an available parking location based on the geographic area, the repository including one or more geographic locations classified as one or more verified parking locations in the geographic area, each of the one or more verified parking locations associated with an attribute indicating whether a respective verified parking location is occupied;
- obtaining a set of one or more unoccupied verified parking locations for the geographic area from the repository;
- identifying a selected parking location from the set of one or more unoccupied verified parking locations;
- and
- generating a route navigating the vehicle from a current location to the selected parking location, wherein the vehicle is autonomously navigated along the route to the selected parking location.
One or more tangible non-transitory computer-readable storage media storing computer-executable instructions for performing a computer process on a computing system, the computer process comprising:
- determining a geographic area associated with a final destination of a vehicle;
- obtaining a parking map for the geographic area from a repository, the repository including one or more verified parking locations for the geographic area, the one or more verified parking locations each being associated with a respective geographic location permitting parking, the parking map including a set of one or more available parking locations identified from the one or more verified parking locations for the geographic area;
- identifying a selected parking location from the set of one or more available parking locations;
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- generating a route navigating the vehicle from a current location to the selected parking location, wherein the vehicle is autonomously navigated along the route to the selected parking location.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.