METHODS AND SYSTEMS OF MANAGING PARKING SPACE OCCUPANCY
First Claim
1. A method of calculating a parking fee in a public parking space based on coordinating a transfer of a parking space between vehicles and automatically decreasing the fee accordingly, comprising:
- creating a command to continuously increase a calculated parking fee for a parked vehicle currently occupying a public parking space, based on duration of said occupying;
receiving a message from a client terminal associated with said parked vehicle, said message includes a notification of future departure of said parked vehicle from said public parking space;
selecting an arriving vehicle to occupy said public parking space when said parked vehicle is departing, based on an estimated time of said future departure and a current location of an arriving client terminal associated with said arriving vehicle; and
creating a command to halt said increasing of said calculated parking fee before identifying said transfer of a public parking space.
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Abstract
A method of calculating a parking fee in a public parking space based on coordinating a transfer of a parking space between vehicles and automatically decreasing the fee accordingly, comprising: creating a command to continuously increase a calculated parking fee for a parked vehicle currently occupying a public parking space, based on duration of the occupying; receiving a message from a client terminal associated with the parked vehicle, the message includes a notification of future departure of the parked vehicle from the public parking space; selecting an arriving vehicle to occupy the public parking space when the parked vehicle is departing, based on an estimated time of the future departure and a current location of the arriving vehicle; and creating a command to halt the increasing of the calculated parking fee before identifying a transfer of the public parking space.
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21 Claims
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1. A method of calculating a parking fee in a public parking space based on coordinating a transfer of a parking space between vehicles and automatically decreasing the fee accordingly, comprising:
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creating a command to continuously increase a calculated parking fee for a parked vehicle currently occupying a public parking space, based on duration of said occupying; receiving a message from a client terminal associated with said parked vehicle, said message includes a notification of future departure of said parked vehicle from said public parking space; selecting an arriving vehicle to occupy said public parking space when said parked vehicle is departing, based on an estimated time of said future departure and a current location of an arriving client terminal associated with said arriving vehicle; and creating a command to halt said increasing of said calculated parking fee before identifying said transfer of a public parking space. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11)
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12. A system of calculating a parking fee in a public parking space based on coordinating a transfer of a parking space between vehicles according to location of client terminals and calculated estimation of arrival times, comprising:
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a program store storing code; and a processor coupled to said interface and said program store for implementing said stored code, said code comprising; code to create a command to continuously increase a calculated parking fee for a parked vehicle currently occupying a public parking space, based on duration of said occupying; code to receive a message from a client terminal associated with said parked vehicle, said message includes a notification of future departure of said parked vehicle from said public parking space; code to select an arriving vehicle to occupy said public parking space when said parked vehicle is departing, based on an estimated time of said future departure and a current location of an arriving client terminal associated with said arriving vehicle; and code to create a command to halt said increasing of said calculated parking fee before identifying a transfer of said public parking space.
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13. A method of coordinating a transfer of a parking space between vehicles based on location of client terminals and calculated estimation of arrival times, comprising:
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monitoring locations of a plurality of client terminals, each associated with a vehicle occupying a public parking space, via a location sensor of each of said plurality of client terminals; estimating a departure time of each of said plurality of vehicles from each said corresponding public parking space; receiving a request from an arriving client terminal to find a parking space for an arriving vehicle associated with said arriving client terminal; estimating an arrival time of said arriving vehicle to each of said plurality of public parking spaces based on a current location of said arriving client terminal; matching between said arriving client terminal and a departing client terminal of said plurality of client terminals, based on correlation between said estimated departure time of a departing vehicle associated with said departing client terminal from a selected public parking space currently occupied by said departing vehicle, and said estimated arrival time of said arriving vehicle to said selected public parking space; and sending instructions to arriving client terminal for driving to a location of said public parking space, wherein said instructions are adjusted so that an actual arrival time of said arriving vehicle to said selected public parking space is closer to said estimated departure time than said estimated arrival time. - View Dependent Claims (14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20)
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21. A method of coordinating a transfer of a parking space between vehicles based on location of client terminals and calculated estimation of arrival times, comprising:
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monitoring locations of a plurality of client terminals, each associated with a vehicle occupying a public parking space, via a location sensor of each of said plurality of client terminals; estimating a departure time of each of said plurality of vehicles from each said corresponding public parking space; receiving a request from an arriving client terminal to find a parking space for an arriving vehicle associated with said arriving client terminal; estimating an arrival time of said arriving vehicle to each of said plurality of public parking spaces based on a current location of said arriving client terminal; matching between said arriving client terminal and a departing client terminal of said plurality of client terminals associated with a departing vehicle currently occupying a selected public parking space; sending instructions to arriving client terminal for driving to a location of said departing client terminal; and sending instructions to arriving client terminal for driving to a location of said public parking space.
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