Method for Locating Parking Spaces
OwnerJohnny Moiseinventor
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Abstract
A computer-implemented method for locating open parking spaces. The method includes the steps of receiving, at a server database, location information from a user via a wireless transmission over a network, transmitting parking rules for an area within a particular radius of the location from the server to the user, transmitting the location of open parking spaces for an area within a particular radius of the location, and displaying a map showing the location of the open parking space. Once parked, the user may upload to the database the changed condition of the occupied parking space. The server also communicates to the user a notification when the parking time limit of the occupied space is a particular amount of time from being reached so that a user knows to vacate the space.
Claims11
1) A computer system comprising:
- a processor;
- a GPS system;
- a non-transitory computer readable medium operatively connected to the processor;
- a logic stored in the non-transitory computer readable medium that, when executed by the processor, causes the computer system to perform a method, the method comprising the steps of:
- transmitting a current location of the computer system determined by the GPS system to a remote computer system;
- receiving a list of parking regulations corresponding to the computer system location;
- receiving an available parking space from the remote system, wherein the available parking space corresponds to the current location;
7) A computer-implemented method of locating parking spaces comprising the steps of:
- sending the current location of a first computer system comprising a GPS system to a remote computer system;
- receiving the current location of the first computer system at the remote computer system, the remote computer system comprising a server and a database comprising a list of parking regulations stored thereon, and a list of parking spaces, wherein each space in the list is assigned either a value representing non-vacancy or a value representing vacancy;
- retrieving currently open parking spaces from the database;
- and
- sending information regarding currently open parking spaces from the remoted computer system to the first computer system.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.