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US 12,183,199 B2Granted
System and method for management of parking spaces
AssigneeStreet Spot Me, LLC
InventorsChristopher Munger, Roy McDonald
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Abstract
A system and method for management of parking spaces is provided. The system including a server configured to receive the geolocation of a motorist and generate a live interactive map depicting available parking spaces configured to be occupied by the motorist either immediately or within an upcoming period of time. The server further configured to establish a secure connection between computing devices associated with the motorist and a current occupier of an applicable parking space allowing an opportunity for the occupier to preserve the applicable parking space until arrival of the motorist at the applicable parking space.
Claims16
A method for managing a parking space, comprising:
- receiving, via a server, a geographic location of a first mobile computing device;
- transmitting, to the server, via the first mobile computing device, a query for an existing parking space within a defined proximity of the geographic location;
- querying, via the server, a parking space database communicatively coupled to the server wherein the parking space database comprises a plurality of active user parking data associated with a plurality of occupied parking spaces;
- receiving, from a second mobile computing device, an indicator of an upcoming available parking space associated with at least one occupied parking space of the plurality of occupied parking spaces;
- establishing and hosting, via the server, a data flow connection between the first mobile computing device and the second mobile computing device based on the indicator, wherein the server is configured to maintain the data flow communication until the first mobile computing device is within a predefined proximity to the second mobile computing device, and the server is further configured to terminate the data flow communication if a predetermined period of time has passed in which the first mobile computing device has not come within the predefined proximity to the second mobile computing device;
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- upon determining, via the server, that the first mobile computing device is within the predefined proximity to the second mobile computing device within the predetermined period of time, and providing, via the server, an incentive to the second mobile computing device, wherein an amount of the incentive is determined by a duration of time that has passed between establishing the data flow and the first mobile communication device coming within the predetermined proximity distance of the second mobile communication device, and increases over the duration of time between establishing the data flow and the first mobile communication device coming within the predetermined proximity of the second mobile communication device.
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A system for managing a parking space, comprising:
- a first mobile computing device and a second mobile computing device;
- a server designed and configured to:
- receive a query for an existing parking space from the first mobile computing device within a defined proximity of the geographic location of the first mobile computing device;
- query a parking space database communicatively coupled to the server wherein the parking space database comprises a plurality of active user parking data associated with a plurality of occupied parking spaces;
- receive, from the second mobile computing device, an indicator of an upcoming available parking space associated with at least one occupied parking space of the plurality of occupied parking spaces;
- establish, at the server, a data flow connection between the first mobile computing device and the second mobile computing device based on the indicator, wherein the data flow communication persists until the first mobile computing device is within a predefined proximity to the second mobile computing device, within a predetermined period of time;
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- provide, via the server, an incentive to the second mobile computing device, wherein an amount of the incentive is determined by a duration of time that has passed between establishing the data flow and the first mobile communication device coming within the predetermined proximity distance of the second mobile communication device, and increases over the duration of time between establishing the data flow and the first mobile communication device coming within the predetermined proximity of the second mobile communication device.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.