# US 8,786,465 B2 · Parking management and billing

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- Number: US 8,786,465 B2
- Document ID: US8786465B2
- Status: Granted
- Kind: B2
- Application number: 13/295,093
- Filed: 2011-11-13
- Published: 2012-11-15
- Granted: 2014-07-22
- Earliest claimed: 2009-05-12
- Applicants: Baruch Bouzaglo
- Inventors: Baruch Bouzaglo
- Web page: https://patentgrep.com/patent/US8786465B2

## CPC

- G07C 9/25: using biometric data, e.g. fingerprints, iris scans or voice recognition
- G06Q 10/00: Administration; Management
- G06Q 20/14: specially adapted for billing systems
- G06Q 20/40145: {Biometric identity checks}
- G06Q 30/04: Billing or invoicing
- G06Q 30/06: Buying, selling or leasing transactions
- G07B 15/00: Arrangements or apparatus for collecting fares, tolls or entrance fees at one or more control points (handling coins or valuable papers, e.g. banknotes, G07D; apparatus for vending or hiring articles or services activated by coins, credit cards, paper currency or the like G07F7/00, G07F17/00)
- G07F 17/24: for parking meters
- G07C: TIME OR ATTENDANCE REGISTERS; REGISTERING OR INDICATING THE WORKING OF MACHINES; GENERATING RANDOM NUMBERS; VOTING OR LOTTERY APPARATUS; ARRANGEMENTS, SYSTEMS OR APPARATUS FOR CHECKING NOT PROVIDED FOR ELSEWHERE
- G06Q: INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY [ICT] SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR ADMINISTRATIVE, COMMERCIAL, FINANCIAL, MANAGERIAL OR SUPERVISORY PURPOSES; SYSTEMS OR METHODS SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR ADMINISTRATIVE, COMMERCIAL, FINANCIAL, MANAGERIAL OR SUPERVISORY PURPOSES, NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR
- G07B: TICKET-ISSUING APPARATUS; FARE-REGISTERING APPARATUS; FRANKING APPARATUS
- G07F: COIN-FREED OR LIKE APPARATUS (coin sorting G07D3/00; coin testing G07D5/00; {handling coins or paper currencies apart from payment activated apparatus G07D; payment architectures, schemes or protocols G06Q20/00})

## Abstract

A parking management system including a server, a plurality of mobile parking management devices mounted in cars, an plurality of parking area parking control devices mounted in a parking areas, and a plurality of portable parking control devices used by parking attendants, all communicating via one or more wireless networks. Upon request, the server provides a mobile parking management device with information pertaining to parking availability and to commercial establishments offering parking payment refunds. Upon request a commercial establishments sends a parking payment refund to the server. Upon request the server bills the account associated with the mobile parking management device according to the parking fee and period of parking.

## Claims

### Claim 1

A device for managing car parking, the device comprising:
a processor;
a memory module connected to said processor;
a user interface module connected to said processor;
a first communication interface module connected to said processor; and
a second communication interface module connected to said processor;
wherein said processor is operative to communicate, via said first communication interface module, and a first network, with a remote server;
wherein said processor is additionally operative to send a parking management device identification data to said remote server;
wherein said processor is additionally operative to report parking status to said remote server;
wherein said processor is operative to communicate, via said second communication interface module, and a second network, with a parking area control device;
wherein said processor is additionally operative to receive a parking area identification data from said parking area control device; and
wherein said processor is additionally operative to report said parking area identification data to said remote server; and
wherein said processor is additionally operative to receive, from said remote server, a parking permit code associated with said parking management device identification data and said parking area identification data.

### Claim 2 (depends on 1)

A device according to claim 1 additionally comprising:
an interface operative to communicate with a portable personal identification device;
wherein said portable personal identification device is operative to identify an account of a user of said mobile parking management device.

### Claim 3

A parking management server comprising:
a processor;
a memory module connected to said processor;
a first communication interface module connected to said processor;
wherein said processor is operative to communicate, via said first communication interface module and a first network, with a parking management device mounted in a parked vehicle in a parking area;
wherein said processor is additionally operative to receive a parking management device identification data from said parking management device;
wherein said processor is additionally operative to receive parking status from said parking management device;
wherein said processor is additionally operative to report parking status to said remote server; and
wherein said processor is additionally operative to send to said parking management device: a parking permit code associated with said parking management device identification data, and identification data of said parking area.