Method and system for legal parking
First Claim
1. A computer-implemented method for providing a guideline for legal parking, said method comprising the steps of:
- utilizing a database residing in a central server to store legal parking related data;
categorizing said legal parking related data into data types comprising at least one of;
commercial vehicle legal parking related data, non-commercial vehicle legal parking related data, legal parking related data based on type of vehicle, or legal parking related data based on type of vehicle plate;
receiving a location of a user and a time from a location identifier in communication with an internal clock mechanism;
determining one or more unavailable or illegal parking locations based on at least one of;
(i) a user type of said user, (ii) one or more parking prohibitions directly applicable to said user, or (iii) one or more parking prohibitions applicable to said user by inference;
identifying one or more potentially available legal parking locations by precluding said one or more unavailable or illegal parking locations from said legal parking related data in said database based on said user type;
notifying said user of a guideline for legal parking based on said data type corresponding to said user type; and
updating said legal parking related data in said database dynamically.
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Abstract
The various embodiments herein provide a system and method for a parking zone mapping, storing and alerting a user for a legal parking to avoid parking violations. The system comprises a location identifier, an accelerometer, a unified database, a data processing module and a display apparatus. The unified database resides in a central server. The unified database is synchronized with the location identifier. The data processing module is connected to the location identifier and the unified database through a communication medium. The data processing module is further connected to the accelerometer. The display apparatus is connected to the data processing module.
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1. A computer-implemented method for providing a guideline for legal parking, said method comprising the steps of:
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utilizing a database residing in a central server to store legal parking related data; categorizing said legal parking related data into data types comprising at least one of;
commercial vehicle legal parking related data, non-commercial vehicle legal parking related data, legal parking related data based on type of vehicle, or legal parking related data based on type of vehicle plate;receiving a location of a user and a time from a location identifier in communication with an internal clock mechanism; determining one or more unavailable or illegal parking locations based on at least one of;
(i) a user type of said user, (ii) one or more parking prohibitions directly applicable to said user, or (iii) one or more parking prohibitions applicable to said user by inference;identifying one or more potentially available legal parking locations by precluding said one or more unavailable or illegal parking locations from said legal parking related data in said database based on said user type; notifying said user of a guideline for legal parking based on said data type corresponding to said user type; and updating said legal parking related data in said database dynamically. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20)
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