SYSTEM AND METHOD OF CREATING A DYNAMIC PARKING SPOT AND A SYSTEM AND METHOD OF CREATING A DYNAMIC PARKING ZONE\REGION

• US 20160180261A1
• Filed: 03/02/2016
• Published: 06/23/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 08/27/2015
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Muni.Spark Ltd
• Original Assignee: sparkcity.com ltd
• Inventors: Rosen, Itamar, Weissberg, Elimelech
• Application Number:
  US15/058,245
• Publication Number:
  US 20160180261A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/02 Reservations, e.g. for tickets, services or events

Abstract

A method including: (a) transmitting a vehicle registration number from a parking reservation server to a vehicle registration database; (b) receiving vehicle dimensions at the parking reservation server in response to the transmitting; (c) calculating a parking spot size based on the vehicle dimensions; and (d) reserving an appropriately sized parking spot based on results of the calculating.

Claims

1. A method comprising:

(a) transmitting a vehicle registration number from a parking reservation server to a vehicle registration database;

(b) receiving vehicle dimensions at said parking reservation server in response to said transmitting;

(c) calculating a parking spot size based on said vehicle dimensions; and

(d) reserving an appropriately sized parking spot based on results of said calculating.

2. A method according to claim 1, comprising:

receiving at said parking reservation server additional size requirements and employing said additional size requirements in said calculating.

3. A method according to claim 1, comprising:

accessing reservation history for the vehicle registration number; and

transmitting a query concerning additional size requirements to a user client device if a recent reservation from the same vehicle registration number included additional size requirements.

4. A method according to claim 1, comprising:

assembling two or more contiguous spots to create said appropriately sized parking spot.

5. A method comprising:

(a) storing a list of parking subunits at a parking reservation server, each parking subunit associated with a unique identifier (UID) and location coordinates;

(b) receiving a parking reservation request including a vehicle registration number at said server from a user client device;

(c) ascertaining a size of said vehicle from said vehicle registration number.

(d) assembling a parking spot sized for said vehicle from two or more contiguous parking subunits; and

(e) transmitting location coordinates of said parking spot sized for said vehicle to said user client device as part of a reservation confirmation.

6. A method according to claim 5, comprising associating said location coordinates of said parking spot sized for said vehicle with instructions to launch a navigation program on said user client device.

7. A method according to claim 5, wherein all of said parking subunits are same sized.

8. A method according to claim 5, wherein said parking subunits include at parking subunits that are differently sized.

9. A method comprising:

transmitting a parking request including a vehicle registration number and a destination to a reservation server from a user client device;

receiving at said user client device a response comprising;

a map of an area in proximity to said destination with available parking subunits indicated; and

a rectangle representing the vehicle defined by said registration number according to a scale of said map; and

positioning said rectangle over two or more contiguous available subunits and entering a confirm command to reserve said two or more contiguous subunits.

10. A method according to claim 9, wherein said subunits are part of a parallel parking arrangement.

11. A method according to claim 9, wherein said subunits are part of a non-parallel parking arrangement.

12. A method according to claim 9, comprising increasing a length and/or width of said rectangle to cover additional subunits.

13. A system comprising:

parcels of land each having a unique identifier;

a database of said parcels of land; and

a processor to calculate a parking spot using said parcels of land.