System and method for coordinating parking enforcement officer patrol in real time with the aid of a digital computer

US10817814B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• Conduent Business Services, LLC · US

Inventors

• Mark J. Stefik · Portola Valley, US
• Mudita Singhal · Sunnyvale, US
• Kevin Albanese · Tarrytown, US
• Farrukh Ali · Los Angeles, US
• Eric A. Bier · Mountain View, US
• Daniel G. Bobrow · Palo Alto, US
• Eduardo Cardenas Sanchez · Austin, US
• Matthew T. Darst · Chicago, US
• Hoda M. A. Eldardiry · Redwood City, US
• Gaurang Gavai · San Francisco, US
• Robert T. Krivacic · San Jose, US
• Sureyya Tarkan · Palo Alto, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Aug 26, 2016
• Grant date: Oct 27, 2020
• Expiry date: Jul 15, 2037

Classification

• Technology area (CPC G): Physics
• CPC primary: G07B15/02
• WIPO field: IT methods for management
• WIPO sector: Electrical engineering

Abstract

A system and method for coordinating parking enforcement officer patrol in real time with the aid of a digital computer is provided. A time-based active representational model of the city is created by fusing sensory data collected from various sources around a city with numerical data gleaned from historical and ongoing activities, including parking regulation citation and warning numbers, resource allocations, and so on. The model can be used to form quantitative predictions of expected violations, revenue stream, and so forth, that can then be used as recommendations as to where to enforce and when, so as to maximize the utilization of the limited resources represented by the officers on the street. Moreover, the performance of the officers can be weighed against expectations of performance postulated from the quantitative predictions.