Method and system for locating an available vehicle parking space

US8427342B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• Bayerische Motoren Werke Aktiengesellschaft · DE

Inventor

• Alexander Busch · Wulfen, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Apr 6, 2010
• Grant date: Apr 23, 2013
• Expiry date: Feb 26, 2031

Classification

• Technology area (CPC G): Physics
• CPC primary: G08G1/14
• WIPO field: Control
• WIPO sector: Instruments

Abstract

A method and system of the invention locates an available vehicle parking space. In the method, parked information indicative of a parked condition is stored in a first vehicle. The first vehicle may detect a change in condition from the parked condition to a vacating condition. The first vehicle then communicates the change in condition from the first vehicle to a neighboring searching vehicle and the searching vehicle detects the change.