Crowd-sourced parking advisory
US8963740B2 · kind B2 · utility
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Key dates
| Filing date | Mar 14, 2013 |
| Grant date | Feb 24, 2015 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Mar 28, 2033 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC G)Physics
- CPC primaryG08G1/148
- WIPO fieldControl
- WIPO sectorInstruments
Abstract
Architecture that employs crowd-sourced parking-related information to compute the probability of finding parking spots at specific road segments, parking lots, and/or in larger geographic areas. The crowd-sourced parking-related information can be obtained from geolocation (geographical location) traces. This approach utilizes a method of mining location traces to compute the probability of finding parking spots at specific road segments, parking lots, and/or in larger geographic areas. The location traces can be mined to classify parking areas as public, private, and semi-private (e.g., only for company employees in certain area that also include public parking areas). The location traces can be mined to infer the times and dates (e.g., hours of the day and the days of the week) during which a vehicle is allowed to park at a given location.
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