Parking Payment System Using A Cell Phone Or Other Mobile Device

• US 20100026522A1
• Filed: 10/09/2009
• Published: 02/04/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 11/10/2006
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: POM, Inc.
• Original Assignee: POM, Inc.
• Inventors: WARD, Seth II
• Application Number:
  US12/576,718
• Publication Number:
  US 20100026522A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 340/932.200
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 20/127 Shopping or accessing services according to a time-limitation
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0283 Price estimation or determination
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0284 Time or distance, e.g. usage of parking meters or taximeters
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 40/123 Tax preparation or submission
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 90/20 Destination assistance within a business structure or complex
• CPC Class Codes: G07B 15/02 taking into account a variable factor such as distance or time, e.g. for passenger transport, parking systems or car rental systems G07B15/06 takes precedence; taximeters G07B13/00; parking meters per se G07F17/24; car rental systems per se G07B15/00
• CPC Class Codes: G07F 17/0014 for vending, access and use of specific services not covered anywhere else in G07F17/00 meter-controlled dispensing of liquid, gas or electricity G07F15/00
• CPC Class Codes: G07F 17/24 for parking meters

Abstract

A system for parking enforcement is provided that includes an enforcement device having a display to display a graphical user interface (GUI) that identifies a plurality of parking spaces and indicia associated with each of the plurality of parking spaces, the indicia indicating whether a parking fee has been paid for the associated parking space.

Claims

1. A system for parking enforcement, comprising:

an enforcement device having a display to display a graphical user interface (GUI) that identifies a plurality of parking spaces and indicia associated with each of the plurality of parking spaces, the indicia indicating whether a parking fee has been paid for the associated parking space.

2. The system of claim 1 further comprising:

a printing mechanism to print a ticket for parking violators.

3. The system of claim 2, further comprising:

a telecommunication provider;

a mobile device supported by the telecommunication provider, the mobile device promoting a customer identifying one of the parking space and further promoting the customer selecting to pay for the one of the parking spaces, wherein the telecommunication provider bills the customer for fees associated with the one of the parking spaces in response to the customer selecting to pay for the one of the parking spaces; and

a server to track parking information including the one of the parking spaces paid for by the customer using the mobile device and communicate the parking information to the device.

4. The system of claim 1, wherein the GUI is related to a website of a parking enforcement system that identifies the plurality of parking spaces and the indicia associated with each of the plurality of parking spaces.

5. The system of claim 1, wherein the GUI is an internet site that identifies the plurality of parking spaces and indicia associated with each of the plurality of parking spaces.

6. The system of claim 1, wherein the global positioning system location of the system is used at least in part to determine the location of the plurality of parking spaces.

7. The system of claim 1, wherein the GUI identifies whether or not payment arrangements have been made for at least some of the parking spaces within the vicinity of a global positioning system location of the system.

8. The system of claim 1, wherein when the system is positioned over a location associated with a specific parking space, based on a global positioning system associated with the system, the GUI is configured to indicate whether payment has been arranged for the specific parking space.

9. The system of claim 1, wherein the GUI is configured to identify the parking spaces for which payment arrangement has been made by a first indicia and wherein the GUI is configured to identify the parking spaces for which payment arrangement have not been made by a second indicia.

10. The system of claim 9, wherein the first indicia indicates, using a first color, parking spaces for which payment arrangements have not been made and wherein the second indicia indicates, using a second color, parking spaces for which payment arrangements have been made.

11. The system of claim 10, wherein the first and second colors are different.

12. The system of claim 1, wherein the enforcement device is one of a mobile electronic computing device, a hand-held computer, a personal digital assistant, a portable or laptop computer, and a tablet computer.