System and method for metered parking at a parking server

US9996827B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• Boku, Inc. · US

Inventors

• Katherine Ann Corner · San Francisco, US
• Wellington W. Sculley · San Francisco, US
• Oliver J. McCarthy-Foecke · San Francisco, US
• Chia-ling Sung · San Francisco, US
• John Ly · Old Bridge, US
• Samantha Elena Nebrich · San Francisco, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Sep 10, 2013
• Grant date: Jun 12, 2018
• Expiry date: Oct 14, 2035

Classification

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

Abstract

A parking request text message is transmitted from a user mobile phone to a billing server and is forwarded to a parking server. The parking server makes a charge API call to the billing server, including a custom text, an amount to be billed and a msisdn of the mobile phone. The billing server charges an account at a carrier server corresponding to the msisdn, receives a charge confirmation from the carrier server, transmits a billing result to the parking server, and sends a confirmation text message to the user mobile phone with the custom text. The parking server updates a parking data structure to indicate that parking has been allotted based on a parking identification in the parking request text message.