MANAGING VEHICLE PARKING
First Claim
1. A method of administering a set of vehicle parking facilities shared by a plurality of tenants, each tenant having a plurality of users, each user having a vehicle, comprising:
- managing an administrative domain accessible by a parking administrator containing a first set of records, each record of the first set including a unique tag identifier for identifying a tag, a set of parking attributes for that tag, and a tenant identifier for identifying one of the tenants, the administrative domain capable of communicating with a plurality of tenant domains, each tenant domain accessible by one of the tenants and associated with a subset of the unique tag identifiers, each unique tag identifier associated with a set of user attributes for identifying one of the users; and
managing an access enforcement system in communication with tag sensors and gates at access points of the vehicle parking facilities for reading tags to obtain a current tag identifier of a current vehicle at a current gate, querying the administrative domain with the tag identifier for determining whether to allow the current vehicle to proceed through the access point, and upon a positive determination providing a signal to the current gate allowing the current vehicle to proceed through the access point;
wherein the set of user attributes in the tenant domains are secured from access by the parking administrator.
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Abstract
A method for administering a set of vehicle parking facilities shared by a plurality of tenants, including managing an administrative domain accessible by a parking administrator, the administrative domain capable of communicating with a plurality of tenant domains; and managing an access enforcement system in communication with tag sensors and gates at access points of the vehicle parking facilities for reading tags to obtain a current tag identifier of a current vehicle at a current gate, and providing a signal to the current gate allowing the current vehicle to proceed through the access point; wherein user attributes in the tenant domains are secured from access by the parking administrator.
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1. A method of administering a set of vehicle parking facilities shared by a plurality of tenants, each tenant having a plurality of users, each user having a vehicle, comprising:
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managing an administrative domain accessible by a parking administrator containing a first set of records, each record of the first set including a unique tag identifier for identifying a tag, a set of parking attributes for that tag, and a tenant identifier for identifying one of the tenants, the administrative domain capable of communicating with a plurality of tenant domains, each tenant domain accessible by one of the tenants and associated with a subset of the unique tag identifiers, each unique tag identifier associated with a set of user attributes for identifying one of the users; and managing an access enforcement system in communication with tag sensors and gates at access points of the vehicle parking facilities for reading tags to obtain a current tag identifier of a current vehicle at a current gate, querying the administrative domain with the tag identifier for determining whether to allow the current vehicle to proceed through the access point, and upon a positive determination providing a signal to the current gate allowing the current vehicle to proceed through the access point; wherein the set of user attributes in the tenant domains are secured from access by the parking administrator. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7)
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