US 2021/0241627 A1 · OVERDUE PARKING WARNING

Abstract

A vehicle parking notification system, including an in-vehicle electronic device including a first wireless communication controller configured to respond to a request for a vehicle id, retrieve position information of the vehicle when the request for the vehicle id is made, the position information indicating that the vehicle is located in a parking facility, and record in memory a time that the request for vehicle id is made and the position information; and an external computer, remote from the vehicle, including processing circuitry configured to: receive, via a second wireless communication controller circuitry, an expiration time that parking at the parking facility expires determined based on the time associated with the request for vehicle id, and display, via a display device, at a predetermined time period before the expiration time a notification message indicating the at least one predetermined time period before the expiration time.

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Dependent claims

A vehicle parking notification system, comprising:

an in-vehicle electronic device including
a first wireless communication controller circuitry,
a memory storing an id of a vehicle,
at least one antenna,
the first wireless communication controller circuitry configured to:
respond to a request for the vehicle id, via the at least one antenna,
retrieve position information of the vehicle when the request for the vehicle id is made, the position information indicating that the vehicle is located at a parking facility, and
record in the memory a time that the request for vehicle id is made and the position information;
and
an external computer, remote from the vehicle, including processing circuitry,
a second wireless communication controller circuitry, and
a display device,
the processing circuitry configured to:
receive, via the second wireless communication controller circuitry, an expiration time that parking at the parking facility expires determined based on the time associated with the request for vehicle id, and
display, via the display device, at a predetermined time period before the expiration time a notification message indicating the predetermined time period before the expiration time.

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A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing program instructions which when executed perform a method comprising:

wirelessly responding, by an in-vehicle wireless communication controller circuitry, to a request for an id of a vehicle;
retrieving, by the in-vehicle wireless communication controller circuitry, position information of the vehicle when the request for the vehicle id is made, the position information indicating that the vehicle is located at a parking facility;
recording in a memory, connected to the in-vehicle wireless communication controller circuitry, a time that the request for vehicle id is made and the position information;
receiving, via a second wireless communication controller circuitry of an external remote computer, an expiration time that parking at the parking facility expires determined based on the time associated with the request for vehicle id;
and
displaying, via a display device of the external remote computer, at a predetermined time period before the expiration time a notification message indicating the predetermined time period before the expiration time.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

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