SYSTEM FOR COMMUNICABLE INTEGRATION OF AN AUTOMOBILE SYSTEM AND A PARKING SYSTEM

• US 20190156675A1
• Filed: 02/28/2018
• Published: 05/23/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 11/22/2017
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Bank of America Corp.
• Original Assignee: Bank of America Corp.
• Inventors: Nelson, Mark Allan, MacQueen, Karen Lea, Selfridge, Stephen Philip, Tajpuria, Ashish B., Twombly, Steven Michael
• Granted Patent: US 10,467,900 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• CPC Class Codes: B62D 15/0285 Parking performed automatically
• CPC Class Codes: G01C 21/3461 Preferred or disfavoured areas, e.g. dangerous zones, toll or emission zones, intersections, manoeuvre types, segments such as motorways, toll roads, ferries
• CPC Class Codes: G01C 21/3469 Fuel consumption; Energy use; Emission aspects
• CPC Class Codes: G01C 21/3484 Personalized, e.g. from learned user behaviour or user-defined profiles
• CPC Class Codes: G01C 21/3492 employing speed data or traffic data, e.g. real-time or historical traffic control systems for road vehicles involving transmission of navigation instructions to the vehicle G08G1/0968
• CPC Class Codes: G01C 21/3617 using user history, behaviour, conditions or preferences, e.g. predicted or inferred from previous use or current movement
• CPC Class Codes: G01C 21/362 received from an external device or application, e.g. PDA, mobile phone or calendar application
• CPC Class Codes: G01C 21/3685 the POI's being parking facilities
• CPC Class Codes: G01S 19/51 Relative positioning
• CPC Class Codes: G05D 23/1917 using digital means
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/29 Geographical information databases
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/9537 Spatial or temporal dependent retrieval, e.g. spatiotemporal queries
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/0834 Choice of carriers
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 20/308 using the Internet of Things
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 20/321 using wearable devices
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 20/34 using cards, e.g. integrated circuit [IC] cards or magnetic cards
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 2240/00 Transportation facility access, e.g. fares, tolls or parking
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0611 Request for offers or quotes
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0613 Third-party assisted
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0635 Processing of requisition or of purchase orders
• 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: G07B 15/063 : using wireless information transmission between the vehicle and a fixed station identification of vehicles G08G
• CPC Class Codes: G08G 1/143 : inside the vehicles
• CPC Class Codes: G08G 1/144 : on portable or mobile units, e.g. personal digital assistant [PDA]
• CPC Class Codes: G08G 1/148 : Management of a network of parking areas
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/40 : Support for services or applications
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/12 : specially adapted for proprietary or special-purpose networking environments, e.g. medical networks, sensor networks, networks in vehicles or remote metering networks
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/125 : involving control of end-device applications over a network
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/52 : specially adapted for the location of the user terminal
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/53 : using third party service providers
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/535 : Tracking the activity of the user network monitoring arrangements H04L43/00; recording of computer activity G06F11/34
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/6091 : including a wireless interface
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72457 : according to geographic location
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/02 : Services making use of location information
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 64/006 : with additional information processing, e.g. for direction or speed determination
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 72/04 : Wireless resource allocation
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 76/10 : Connection setup

Abstract

Embodiments of the present invention provide a system for transferring one or more resources associated with an interaction via an automobile. The system is typically configured for receiving an input from a user to search for a parking space, communicating with one or more remote parking systems at one or more parking locations within a predetermined distance from a destination to identify one or more available parking spaces, applying logic to select a first parking space from the one or more available parking spaces, transmit a location of the first parking space to the user, continuously monitoring a real-time location of the user, identifying that the real-time location of the user matches the location of the first parking space, initiating transfer of resources to complete an interaction with a first remote parking system associated with the first parking space, and completing the interaction by transferring the resources to the first remote parking system.

Claims

1. A system for communicable integration of an automobile system and a parking system, the system comprising:

one or more memory devices having computer readable code stored thereon;

one or more processing devices operatively coupled to the one or more memory devices, wherein the one or more processing devices are configured to execute the computer readable code to;

receive an input from a user, via one or more components of an automobile, to search for at least one available parking space;

identify a destination of the user, via the one or more components of the automobile;

determine one or more parking locations located within a predetermined limit from the destination of the user;

communicate with one or more remote parking systems at each of the one or more parking locations to identify one or more available parking spaces;

apply logic to select a first parking space from the one or more available parking spaces;

transmit a location of the first parking space to the user via the one or more components;

establish a first communication link between the automobile and a first remote parking system associated with the first parking space located at the location of the first parking space;

continuously monitor a real-time location of the user via the one or more components;

identify that the real-time location of the user matches the location of the first parking space;

in response to identifying that the real-time location of the user matches the location of the first parking space, initiate transfer of resources to complete an interaction with the first remote parking system associated with the first parking space; and

complete the interaction by transferring the resources to the first remote parking system.

2. The system of claim 1, wherein the one or more processing devices are configured to execute the computer readable code to establish a direct communication link with the one or more components of the automobile.

3. The system of claim 1, wherein the one or more processing devices are configured to execute the computer readable code to establish a communication link with a smart computing device of the user, wherein the smart computing device is connected to the automobile.

4. The system of claim 3, wherein the one or more processing devices are configured to execute the computer readable code to complete the interaction by:

extracting information associated with one or more resource pools stored in the smart computing device of the user; and

transferring the resources in the one or more resource pools to the first remote parking system.

5. The system of claim 3, wherein the one or more processing devices are configured to execute the computer readable code to:

in response to completing the interaction, receive a receipt associated with the interaction from the first remote parking system; and

integrate the receipt with the interaction posted into a user application stored in the smart computing device.

6. The system of claim 5, wherein the one or more processing devices are configured to execute the computer readable code to receive the receipt when the real-time location of the user does not match the location of the first parking space.

7. The system of claim 1, wherein the one or more processing devices are configured to execute the computer readable code to complete the interaction by transferring the resources to the first remote parking system via a card reader located in the automobile.

8. The system of claim 1, wherein the one or more components comprise at least input devices, output devices, positioning system, and other automotive components.

9. The system of claim 1, wherein the one or more processing devices are configured to execute the computer readable code to apply the logic for selecting the first parking space by:

identifying user preferences associated with the user;

identifying travel time associated with each of the one or more third party entities by communicating with traffic monitoring systems;

identifying one or more supplemental resources associated with resource pools of the user;

identifying one or more offers associated with the one or more available parking spaces;

identifying one or more factors associated with the one or more available parking spaces; and

determining the first parking space based on at least the user preferences, the travel time, the one or more supplemental resources, the one or more offers, and the one or more factors.

10. The system of claim 1, wherein the one or more processing devices are configured to execute the computer readable code to:

continuously monitor the first parking space via the first communication link with the first remote parking system;

determine that the first parking space is no longer available;

apply the logic to determine a second parking space from the one or more available parking spaces; and

establish a second communication link with a second remote parking system associated with the second parking space.

11. A computer program product for communicable integration of an automobile system and a parking system, the computer program product comprising at least one non-transitory computer-readable medium having computer-readable program code portions embodied therein, the computer-readable program code portions comprises one or more executable portions for:

receiving an input from a user, via one or more components of an automobile, to search for at least one available parking space;

identifying a destination of the user, via the one or more components of the automobile;

determining one or more parking locations located within a predetermined limit from the destination of the user;

communicating with one or more remote parking systems at each of the one or more parking locations to identify one or more available parking spaces;

applying logic to select a first parking space from the one or more available parking spaces;

transmitting a location of the first parking space to the user via the one or more components;

establishing a first communication link between the automobile and a first remote parking system associated with the first parking space located at the location of the first parking space;

continuously monitoring a real-time location of the user via the one or more components;

identifying that the real-time location of the user matches the location of the first parking space;

in response to identifying that the real-time location of the user matches the location of the first parking space, initiating transfer of resources to complete an interaction with the first remote parking system associated with the first parking space; and

completing the interaction by transferring the resources to the first remote parking system.

12. The computer program product of claim 11, wherein the computer-readable program code portions comprises one or more executable portions for establishing a direct communication link with the one or more components of the automobile.

13. The computer program product of claim 11, wherein the computer-readable program code portions comprises one or more executable portions for establishing a communication link with a smart computing device of the user, wherein the smart computing device is connected to the automobile.

14. The computer program product of claim 13, wherein the computer-readable program code portions comprises one or more executable portions for completing the interaction by:

extracting information associated with one or more resource pools stored in the smart computing device of the user; and

transferring the resources in the one or more resource pools to the first remote parking system.

15. The computer program product of claim 13, wherein the computer-readable program code portions comprises one or more executable portions for:

in response to completing the interaction, receiving a receipt associated with the interaction from the first remote parking system; and

integrating the receipt with the interaction posted into a user application stored in the smart computing device.

16. A computer implemented method for communicable integration of an automobile system and a parking system, the method comprising:

receiving an input from a user, via one or more components of an automobile, to search for at least one available parking space;

identifying a destination of the user, via the one or more components of the automobile;

determining one or more parking locations located within a predetermined limit from the destination of the user;

communicating with one or more remote parking systems at each of the one or more parking locations to identify one or more available parking spaces;

applying logic to select a first parking space from the one or more available parking spaces;

transmitting a location of the first parking space to the user via the one or more components;

establishing a first communication link between the automobile and a first remote parking system associated with the first parking space located at the location of the first parking space;

continuously monitoring a real-time location of the user via the one or more components;

identifying that the real-time location of the user matches the location of the first parking space;

in response to identifying that the real-time location of the user matches the location of the first parking space, initiating transfer of resources to complete an interaction with the first remote parking system associated with the first parking space; and

completing the interaction by transferring the resources to the first remote parking system.

17. The computer implemented method of claim 16, wherein the method comprises establishing a direct communication link with the one or more components of the automobile.

18. The computer implemented method of claim 16, wherein the method comprises establishing a communication link with a smart computing device of the user, wherein the smart computing device is connected to the automobile.

19. The computer implemented method of claim 18, wherein the method comprises completing the interaction by:

extracting information associated with one or more resource pools stored in the smart computing device of the user; and

transferring the resources in the one or more resource pools to the first remote parking system.

20. The computer implemented method of claim 18, wherein the method comprises:

in response to completing the interaction, receiving a receipt associated with the interaction from the first remote device; and

integrating the receipt with the interaction posted into a user application stored in the smart computing device.