Parking system that controls check-in and check-out of rental vehicle
AssigneeGiken Ltd.
InventorsToshio Ikeda, Mamoru Uesugi
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Abstract
A parking system includes an inventory status storage storing the status of inventory of a bicycle, two-wheeled vehicle, or car, and a control system that controls the status of inventory of the bicycle, two-wheeled vehicle, or car and controls check-in and check-out of the bicycle, two-wheeled vehicle, or car based on data stored in the inventory status storage. The parking system further includes a cooperative control unit for communicating with an external rental operator's server, converting instruction data on check-in and check-out transmitted from the server to commands processable for the control system, and instructing to do check-in and check-out.
Claims6
A parking system comprising:
- an inventory status storage storing the status of inventory of a vehicle, wherein the vehicle is a bicycle, two-wheeled vehicle or car;
- a control system that controls the status of inventory of the vehicle and controls check-in and check-out of the vehicle based on data stored in the inventory status storage;
- and
- a plurality of cooperative control units that corresponds to servers of external rental operators, respectively, wherein
- each of the plurality of cooperative control units;
- receives, from the server of one of the external rental operators, instruction data on check-in and check-out, wherein the instruction data is incompatible with the control system and differs in each of the servers of the external rental operators;
- converts the instruction data to command data compatible with contol system;
- and
- sends, to the control system, the commmand data that causes the control system to perform the check-in and check-out.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.