METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR AVOIDANCE OF PARKING VIOLATIONS
First Claim
1. A system for alerting a user on how to avoid receiving parking violation citations, comprising:
- an in-vehicle navigation system;
one or more mobile device units;
a location determining apparatus to identify a current location of a user;
a clock mechanism to determine a present time and date;
a unified database storing parking rules, violation codes, abbreviations used by law enforcement, historical records of issued parking violation citations and real-time crowdsourced records of issued parking violation citations, each of the issued parking violation citations including geolocations, one or more reasons, time and date information pertaining to where and when the issued parking violation citations were issued;
a processing apparatus to cross correlate the identified present time and the identified current location of the user with the time and date information and geolocation information of each of the issued parking violation citations to predict a likelihood of the user receiving a parking violation citation at the identified current location and the determined time and date; and
a display apparatus associated with a mobile device of the one or more mobile device units or the in-vehicle navigation system to present an alert pertaining to the predicted likelihood of the user receiving a parking violation citation, and to display information pertaining to the issued parking violation citations cross correlated to the identified current location and the determined time and date.
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Abstract
Disclosed is a system and method for alerting users on how to avoid receiving parking violation citations. A location determining apparatus identifies a location of a user. A database stores historical parking violation citations, real-time crowdsourced parking violation citations, and other parking violation related information with a verification algorithm and an inference algorithm. Parking intent is determined by a user'"'"'s location and speed and once the determination is made, the database is polled to identify whether potential parking violations exist, where an alert will be sent. A forum functionality allows information exchange and idea sharing about parking violation citations and avoidance thereof. Crowdsourced parking violation related data is gathered using an incentive method with rewards and a parking ticket payment module collects parking violation-related information for the database. Historical weather data is used to predict the impact on current parking situations.
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30 Claims
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1. A system for alerting a user on how to avoid receiving parking violation citations, comprising:
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an in-vehicle navigation system; one or more mobile device units; a location determining apparatus to identify a current location of a user; a clock mechanism to determine a present time and date; a unified database storing parking rules, violation codes, abbreviations used by law enforcement, historical records of issued parking violation citations and real-time crowdsourced records of issued parking violation citations, each of the issued parking violation citations including geolocations, one or more reasons, time and date information pertaining to where and when the issued parking violation citations were issued; a processing apparatus to cross correlate the identified present time and the identified current location of the user with the time and date information and geolocation information of each of the issued parking violation citations to predict a likelihood of the user receiving a parking violation citation at the identified current location and the determined time and date; and a display apparatus associated with a mobile device of the one or more mobile device units or the in-vehicle navigation system to present an alert pertaining to the predicted likelihood of the user receiving a parking violation citation, and to display information pertaining to the issued parking violation citations cross correlated to the identified current location and the determined time and date. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 16)
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15. A computer system comprising:
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a microprocessor; and a non-transitory, tangible, program storage medium, readable by the computer system, embodying a program of instructions executable by the microprocessor to perform method steps for alerting a user on how to avoid receiving a parking violation citation, the method steps comprising; receiving a geocoded location of a user; receiving data pertaining to historical parking violation citations from a unified database; receiving vehicle data from the user including a type of vehicle and type of vehicle plate; analyzing and verifying the received geocoded location, the data from the unified database, the vehicle data received from the user and identifying highly relevant data therefrom; and displaying the highly relevant data to alert the user as to a probability of receiving a parking violation citation at the location of the user.
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17. A method for alerting a user on how to avoid receiving parking violation citations, comprising:
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receiving a geocoded location of a user; receiving data pertaining to historical parking violation citations from a unified database; receiving vehicle data from the user; analyzing and verifying the received geocoded location, data from the unified database, vehicle data from the user to identify relevant data therefrom; comparing different parking rules between the received geocoded location of the user and a location obtained from the user'"'"'s driver license information stored in a user profile; comparing similar weather conditions indicated by the data pertaining to the historical parking violation data as being related to forecasted weather conditions to obtain potential weather-related violation information; and displaying the relevant data to alert the user. - View Dependent Claims (18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30)
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