Computer-implemented system and method for managing interchangeable parking spaces

US8816879B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• Palo Alto Research Center Incorporated · US

Inventors

• Mark J. Stefik · Portola Valley, US
• Kristian Lyngbaek · Palo Alto, US
• Christopher R. Dance · Grenoble, FR
• Shrenik Devasani · Redwood City, US
• Craig Eldershaw · Belmont, US
• Roger Hoover · Leesport, US
• Ellen Isaacs · Sunnyvale, US
• Peter Jarvis · Sunnyvale, US
• Sylvia Joan Smullin · Menlo Park, US
• Makiko Taniguchi · San Francisco, US
• Francisco E. Torres · San Jose, US
• Alan G. Bell · Palo Alto, US
• Robert T. Krivacic · San Jose, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Sep 21, 2012
• Grant date: Aug 26, 2014
• Expiry date: Oct 20, 2032

Classification

• Technology area (CPC G): Physics
• CPC primary: G06Q10/02
• WIPO field: IT methods for management
• WIPO sector: Electrical engineering

Abstract

A computer-implemented system and method for managing interchangeable parking spaces is provided. A parking pool that includes a plurality of parking spaces, which are each interchangeably reservable by motorists, is formed. The parking spaces in the parking pool that are currently-occupied by other vehicles and any reservations by motorists to park their vehicles in the parking pool are identified. The number of the parking spaces in the parking pool free of the currently-occupied parking spaces and the parking spaces in the parking pool that will be used to fulfill the reservations, plus the time available for parking in the parking pool, are displayed.