Mathods & apparatus dynamically managing parking

• US 20050280555A1
• Filed: 06/22/2005
• Published: 12/22/2005
• Est. Priority Date: 06/22/2004
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Iv, Frederick Maltby Warner
• Original Assignee: Iv, Frederick Maltby Warner
• Inventors: Warner, Frederick Maltby IV
• Application Number:
  US11/158,991
• Publication Number:
  US 20050280555A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 340/932.2
• CPC Class Codes: G08G 1/14 indicating individual free spaces in parking areas

Abstract

A dynamic parking management system and method includes use of an intelligent software engine that, in some embodiments, interfaces with a wireless mesh network and multi-channel communication devices that, as a system, increases customer convenience which maximizes return on parking resources. The present invention uses a parking transceiver mesh network node located proximate to one or more parking spaces to provide accurate and current data to a database of available parking assets. Parking availability algorithms are used to analyze this data to select optimal parking spaces for subscribers/drivers and predict future availability of parking spaces. Additional functionality comes from the parking transceiver'"'"'s ability to recognize specific vehicles and specific customers with predefined requirements.

Claims

1. An apparatus comprising:

a server; and

a plurality of parking transceivers in communication with the server,

wherein each of the parking transceivers is operative to detect the presence of a vehicle in an associated parking spot and communicate a status of the parking spot to the server, and

wherein the server is operative to direct each of a plurality of subscribers to a parking spot based upon the status of the parking spot and one or more parameters specified by each of the plurality of subscribers.