(19) United States
(12) Patent Application Publication (io) Pub. No.: US 2005/0280555 Al
Warner, IV (43) Pub. Date: Dec. 22,2005
(54) MATHODS & APPARATUS DYNAMICALLY MANAGING PARKING
(76) Inventor: Frederick Maltby Warner IV,
Emeryville, CA (US)
Correspondence Address:
Steven M. Santisi
IP Design & Development Group, LLC
80 Lounsbury Lane
Ridgefleld, CT 06877 (US)
(21) Appl. No.: 11/158,991
(22) Filed: Jun. 22, 2005
Related U.S. Application Data
(60) Provisional application No. 60/582,324, filed on Jun. 22, 2004. Provisional application No. 60/624,278, filed on Nov. 2, 2004.
Publication Classification
(51) Int. CI.7 B60Q 1/48; G08G 1/14
(52) U.S. CI 340/932.2; 705/13
(57) ABSTRACT
A dynamic parking management system and method includes use of an intelligent software engine that, in some embodiments, interfaces with a wireless mesh network and multi-channel communication devices that, as a system, increases customer convenience which maximizes return on parking resources. The present invention uses a parking transceiver mesh network node located proximate to one or more parking spaces to provide accurate and current data to a database of available parking assets. Parking availability algorithms are used to analyze this data to select optimal parking spaces for subscribers/drivers and predict future availability of parking spaces. Additional functionality comes from the parking transceiver's ability to recognize specific vehicles and specific customers with predefined requirements.
