Systems and Methods for Providing Navigational Assistance to Reserved Parking Locations
AssigneeGoogle Inc.
InventorSashanka Vishnuvajhala
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Abstract
A computer-implemented method that includes reserving a first parking location for parking of a first vehicle, determining that the first vehicle is parked in a second parking location that is different from the first parking location reserved for parking of the first vehicle, determining, using a computer, whether the second parking location is available for parking of the first vehicle, and in response to at least determining that the second parking location is not available for parking of the first vehicle, providing for display of a prompt requesting that the first vehicle be moved to a parking location that is available for parking of the first vehicle.
Claims20
A computer-implemented method, comprising:
- reserving a first parking location for parking of a first vehicle;
- determining that the first vehicle is parked in a second parking location that is different from the first parking location reserved for parking of the first vehicle;
- determining, using a computer, whether the second parking location is available for parking of the first vehicle;
- and
- in response to at least determining that the second parking location is not available for parking of the first vehicle, providing for display of a prompt requesting that the first vehicle be moved to a parking location that is available for parking of the first vehicle.
A computer-implemented method, comprising:
- receiving a request for navigational assistance to a given location;
- determining whether there are one or more parking spaces available at a parking facility associated with the given location, the parking facility allowing for reservation for parking of a vehicle within an available parking space prior to arrival of the vehicle at the location;
- and
- in response to at least determining that there is one or more parking spaces available at the parking facility, providing for display of an option to reserve at least one of the one or more parking spaces determined to be available at the parking facility.
A computer-implemented method, comprising:
- receiving, from a mobile communications device, an indication that a vehicle is parked in a parking space of a parking facility;
- determining that a fee has been paid to entitle parking of the vehicle within the parking space until a parking expiration time;
- determining a parking expiration alert time, the parking expiration alert time occurring a given amount of time prior to the parking expiration time;
- determining that a current time is equal to or greater than the parking expiration time;
- and
- in response to determining that a current time is equal to or greater than the parking expiration time, providing for display via the mobile communications device, a parking expiration alert indicative of the parking expiration time and providing an option to authorize a payment of an additional fee to entitle parking of the vehicle within the parking space until an extended parking expiration time that is later then the parking expiration time.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.