System and Method for Determining and Reserving Available Parking

• US 20110022427A1
• Filed: 07/23/2010
• Published: 01/27/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 07/23/2009
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Medwin Dayan
• Original Assignee: Medwin Dayan
• Inventors: Dayan, Medwin
• Application Number:
  US12/842,181
• Publication Number:
  US 20110022427A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 705/5
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/02 Reservations, e.g. for tickets, services or events
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/06 Buying, selling or leasing transactions
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/021 Services related to particular areas, e.g. point of interest [POI] services, venue services or geofences
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/023 using mutual or relative location information between multiple location based services [LBS] targets or of distance thresholds
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/029 Location-based management or tracking services
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/33 for indoor environments, e.g. buildings

Abstract

A system and method for locating and reserving parking spaces at a desired location is provided. The system and method can be implemented by a phone application or other software using a GPS device in or otherwise coupled to the application.

Claims

1. A system for locating parking systems comprising:

a computing device having an application configured to identify locations of parking facilities proximate a designated location and display the parking facilities locations on a map, and further configured to provide a link for each displayed parking facility for displaying rate information for parking at a selected displayed parking facility.

2. The system of claim 1 wherein the computing device is a mobile device.

3. The system of claim 2 wherein the mobile device is a cellular phone.

4. The system of claim 2 wherein the mobile device includes a global positioning system, and wherein the designated location is the location of the mobile device determined from the global positioning system.

5. The system of claim 1 wherein the designation location is entered into the computing device by a user.

6. The system of claim 2 wherein the application is further configured to allow a user of the mobile device to communicate with a selected parking garage to reserve a parking space.

7. The system of claim 6 wherein the mobile device is configured to receive parking information from parking facilities proximate the designated location indicative of a discounted parking rate.

8. The system of claim 1 wherein the application is configured to transmit credit or debit card payment information to a selected facility to reserve a parking spot.

9. The system of claim 1 wherein the application is configured to transmit bid requests to parking facilities proximate the designated location and receive responses from the parking facilities indicative of an offered parking rate.

10. A system for locating and reserving a parking space comprising:

a mobile computing device configured to electronically search for and identify parking facilities having available parking spaces proximate a designated location over a network connection in real time, the computing device configured to interact with a select parking facility identified in the search to enable a user of the mobile computing device to electronically reserve a parking space at the select parking facility.

11. The system of claim 10 further comprising a GPS device coupled to the mobile computing device to facilitate location of the parking facilities having available parking spaces.

12. The system of claim 10 wherein the mobile computing device is a cellular phone having an application configured to receive an inputted location and to electronically obtain available parking information from a parking application host computing device.

13. The system of claim 10 further comprising a host computing device in communication with parking facility servers of the identified parking facilities, the host computing device configured to receive parking information from the parking facility servers and provide the information to the user computing device.

14. The system of claim 10 wherein the mobile computing device is configured to transmit a signal directly to a parking facility server over a wireless network.

15. The system of claim 10 wherein the mobile computing device is configured to transmit a bid request to identified parking facilities requesting each parking facility to provide a bid rate for reserving a parking space.

16. The system of claim 15 wherein the mobile computing device is configured to receive bid responses from the identified parking facilities.

17. The system of claim 16 wherein the mobile computing device is configured to transmit an acceptance to a select one parking facility of the responding identified parking facilities, the acceptance including user payment information for reserving a space at the one parking facility.

18. The system of claim 10 wherein the mobile computing device is configured to receive an inputted acceptable user rate and transmit a request for acceptance for reserving a parking space at the acceptable user rate to the identified parking facilities.

19. The system of claim 18 wherein the mobile computing device is configured to receive an acceptance from one parking facility of the identified parking facilities.

20. The system of claim 19 wherein the mobile computing device is configured to transmit payment information to the one parking facility.