SYSTEM FOR MANAGING METERED VEHICLE PARKING

• US 20110015972A1
• Filed: 01/23/2008
• Published: 01/20/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 01/23/2008
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Valher Gestion De Aparcamientos S.l.
• Original Assignee: Valher Gestion De Aparcamientos S.l.
• Inventors: Heredero Gracia, Jose, Valdecantos Pardo de Santayana, Pastora, Valdecantos Pardo de Santayana, Pedro
• Application Number:
  US12/863,982
• Publication Number:
  US 20110015972A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 705/13
• 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: G07C 1/30 Parking meters registering or indicating waiting time of vehicles by means driven by the vehicle G07C5/02; coin-freed parking meters G07F17/24

Abstract

Parking management system for automobile vehicles that uses two devices, a PJP and an MFL, which develop functions relating to traditional parking, or the controlled parking located in public thoroughfares. The PJP is a transmitter/receiver frontally equipped with three lights (green, yellow, red), which indicate the state of authorization of parking, and three lights (white, green, blue), which determine parking areas. At the rear part it will have an alphanumeric keyboard, a digital display and six keys (three for areas of controlled parking and three for the status of the payment for parking), and will be equipped with a card reader. The MFL will be a transmitter/receiver of waves, with a signal transponder, a computer, a printer, a coin box, a slot and a display for its possible manual use, and offers an auxiliary transmitter/receiver to send or receive telephonic messages relating to the service.

Claims

1-4. -4. (canceled)

5. A parking management system comprising a first communication device and a second communication device, wherein the first communication device is configured to facilitate payment for a service, and the second communication device is configured to enable the service upon receiving payment information for the service.

6. The parking management system of claim 5, wherein the first communication device is mobile and the second communication device is stationary.

7. The parking management system of claim 5, wherein the payment is at least one of charge to a bank account and a charge to a payment card.

8. The parking management system of claim 5, wherein a status of the service is indicated on the first communication device.

9. The parking management system of claim 8, wherein the status of the service is designated by one of three colors, wherein a first color indicates an authorized service, a second color indicates a warning regarding the service, and a third color indicates an expired service.

10. The parking management system of claim 5, wherein the first communication device comprises at least one of authorization lights configured to indicate the status of service, zone lights configured to indicate a type of parking area, an alphanumeric keyboard, a digital display, zone keys for indicating the type of parking area, state keys for powering the first communication device, and a card reader slot to facilitate the payment.

11. The parking management system of claim 5, wherein the second communication device comprises at least one of a computer, a printer, a coin-box unit, a slot and a display to provide indications relating to manual use of the second communication device.

12. The parking management system of claim 5, wherein the first and the second communication devices are equipped with a transmitter/receiver of wireless frequencies.

13. The parking management system of claim 5, wherein the first communication device and the second communication communicate via a wireless protocol.

14. A method of managing parking comprising:

a. emitting a first signal by a first communication device;

b. enabling a service by a second communication device;

c. emitting a second signal by the first communication device; and

d. disabling the service by the second communication device.

15. The method of claim 14, wherein the enabling a service comprises allowing entrance into a parking garage or lot.

16. The method of claim 14, wherein the disabling the service comprises allowing exit from a parking garage or lot.

17. The method of claim 14, further comprising charging a bank account or a payment card for the service upon disabling the service.

18. A method of managing parking comprising:

a. requesting a service from a first communication device;

b. approving the request by a second communication device, thereby authorizing the beginning of a billing and indicating a status of the service on the first communication device;

c. ending the service from the first communication device; and

d. authorizing the end of the billing by the second communication device, thereby changing the status on the first communication device.

19. The method of claim 18, wherein the requesting comprises providing service details and payment information.

20. The method of claim 19, wherein the payment information is provided by introducing a payment card in a slot within the first communication device.

21. The method of claim 18, further comprising changing the status on the first communication device when the scope of the service nears an end.

22. The method of claim 18, further comprising changing the status on the first communication device when the scope of the service is exceeded.

23. The method of claim 22, further comprising requesting continued service from the first communication device.

24. The method of claim 18, further comprising recording information regarding the service on the second communication device.