DEVICE AND METHOD FOR REMOTELY INITIATED PARKING SERVICE

• US 20120184298A1
• Filed: 10/11/2010
• Published: 07/19/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 10/15/2009
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Alcatel-Lucent SA (Nokia Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Alcatel-Lucent SA (Nokia Corporation)
• Inventors: Lou, Zhe, Moons, Jan
• Application Number:
  US13/497,077
• Publication Number:
  US 20120184298A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 455/456.2
• CPC Class Codes: G07B 15/02 taking into account a variable factor such as distance or time, e.g. for passenger transport, parking systems or car rental systems G07B15/06 takes precedence; taximeters G07B13/00; parking meters per se G07F17/24; car rental systems per se G07B15/00
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/48 for in-vehicle communication

Abstract

The present invention is related to a device (1) for use in a remotely initiated parking service. The device is arranged for receiving a request for parking a vehicle (4) from a device (3) for initiating a parking session and arranged for triggering a means (2) for determining the location of said device for initiating said parking session. The device comprises a decision module arranged for receiving information indicative of the identity of the vehicle (4) and arranged for receiving location information from a means (2) for determining the location of the device (3) for initiating the parking session, said decision module further arranged for deciding from communication with the device for initiating the parking session or with the means for determining the location whether the device for initiating the parking session is wirelessly coupled with a transceiver contained in the vehicle and for determining, if it is decided there is a wireless coupling, from the received location information whether the device for initiating the parking session is moving.

Claims

1. An apparatus for use in a remotely initiated parking service, said apparatus:

being arranged to receive a request to park a vehicle from a device that initiates a parking session while said device is wirelessly coupled with a transceiver in said vehicle,

being arranged to trigger a means for determining a location of said device,

comprising a decision module arranged to receive location information from said means for determining the location of said device and arranged to receive information indicative of an identity of said vehicle, said decision module being further arranged to decide, from communication with said device or with said means for determining the location, whether said device is wirelessly coupled with the transceiver contained in said vehicle and to determine, from said received location information, whether said device is moving when the wireless coupling exists.

2. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein said information indicative of the identity of said vehicle is comprised in said request.

3. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein said information indicative of the identity is received along with said location information from said means for determining the location.

4. The apparatus of claim 1, further comprising means for storing said information indicative of the identity of said vehicle along with information indicative of said device.

5. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein said device is a cellular phone.

6. The apparatus of claim 5, wherein said apparatus is arranged to communicate with said device via a control channel.

7. A system arranged to provide a remotely initiated parking service comprising:

means for determining a location of a device upon receipt of a request from the device to initiate a parking session for a vehicle, the device being wirelessly coupled with a transceiver in the vehicle; and

a decision module arranged to

receive the location information from the means for determining the location of the device;

receive information indicative of an identity of the vehicle;

determine whether the device is wirelessly coupled with the transceiver; and

determine whether the device is moving when the wireless coupling exists.

8. A module for use in a device to initiate a parking session, said module being arranged to transmit a message comprising a request for a parking session, wherein said message further comprises information indicative of an identity of a vehicle that contains a transceiver to which said device to initiate the parking session is wirelessly coupled and the information indicative of an identity of said device to initiate the parking session.

9. A cellular telephone device comprising a module as in claim 8.

10. A method for operating a remotely initiated parking service, comprising the steps of:

receiving a request to park a vehicle from a device to initiate a parking session while said device is wirelessly coupled with a transceiver in said vehicle,

triggering, upon receipt of said request, a means for determining a location of said device,

receiving information indicative of an identity of said vehicle,

receiving the location information of said device,

checking whether said device is wirelessly coupled with said transceiver in said vehicle, and

determining, from said received location information, whether said device is moving when the wireless coupling exists.