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Parking payment and enforcement mechanism

  • US 20090292597A1
  • Filed: 05/20/2009
  • Published: 11/26/2009
  • Est. Priority Date: 05/20/2008
  • Status: Abandoned Application
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1. A method of detecting a violation of a parking payment comprising steps of:

  • a) associating in real time, for each pre-registered parked vehicle, vehicle signature with a corresponding parking status, wherein vehicle signature represents at least one characteristic of the parked vehicle, and the corresponding parking status represents a status of parking payment for the parked vehicle, wherein the characteristics include characteristics of permanent type which are independent of the vehicle'"'"'s parking state and characteristics that are automatically acquired by the parker'"'"'s device;

    b) acquiring a vehicle information of inspected vehicle, triggered by an operator'"'"'s device, wherein the vehicle information represents the same characteristics as represented by the vehicle signature;

    c) matching the vehicle information with a subset of the vehicle signatures that are associated to the corresponding parking status based on matching criteria, wherein said subset can be the entire group of the vehicle signatures that are associated to the corresponding parking status;

    d) retrieving the parking status associated with the vehicle signature which satisfies said matching criteria;

    e) signaling through said operator'"'"'s device to the operator if a parking payment is made properly based on the retrieved parking status;

    whereby enabling parker to pay for the parking using his own device, while completely eliminating or significantly reducing the amount of payment related information that the parker has to enter when the parker pays for the parking and at the same time transparently to the operator signaling the parking status and allowing the operator to automatically determine if the payment violation occurred.

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