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Systems and methods for providing navigational assistance to a parking facility

  • US 8,816,880 B1
  • Filed: 01/31/2013
  • Issued: 08/26/2014
  • Est. Priority Date: 01/31/2012
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A computer-implemented method, comprising:

  • receiving, from a mobile communications device, a request for navigational assistance to a given location;

    identifying a parking facility at or near the given location, the parking facility comprising a plurality of sections accessible by a plurality of different entrances to the parking facility, and each of the sections comprising a corresponding set of parking spaces;

    identifying a first section of the parking facility associated with a level of parking availability that exceeds levels of parking availability of others of the plurality of sections of the parking facility;

    identifying a first entrance of the parking facility that corresponds to the first section of the parking facility;

    providing, to the mobile communications device for presentation to a user, navigational assistance to the first entrance of the parking facility; and

    prior to receiving an indication that a vehicle associated with the mobile communications device has arrived at the first entrance of the parking facility;

    monitoring, using a computer, current availability of parking in the plurality of sections of the parking facility to determine whether the first section continues to be associated with a level of parking availability that exceeds levels of parking availability associated with the others of the plurality of sections of the parking facility;

    determining that a second section of the parking facility is associated with a current level of parking availability that exceeds a current level of parking availability associated with the first section of the parking facility; and

    in response to determining that the second section of the parking facility is associated with a current level of parking availability that exceeds a current level of parking availability associated with the first section of the parking facility, providing, to the mobile communications device for presentation to the user, navigational assistance to a second entrance of the parking facility that corresponds to the second section of the parking facility.

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