Patent ID: 11928964
Assignee: UNITED SERVICES AUTOMOBILE ASSOCIATION (USAA)
Field: Control (Instruments)
Classification: CPC G | IPC G

Claim 7:
8. A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing instructions that, when executed by a computing system, cause the computing system to perform a process for providing a prediction of parking availability, the process comprising:
receiving a parking search query specifying search criteria including one or more characteristics for parking spaces;
generating one or more imminent-vacancy scores for parking by filtering parking spaces that match the one or more characteristics and applying a model to the filtered parking spaces, wherein the model was generated based at least on:
durations of parking-place occupancies for multiple parking places; and
durations of parking-place vacancies for the multiple parking places; and

providing, based on the one or more imminent-vacancy scores, a parking availability prediction, the providing comprising one or more of:
generating a map, based on the one or more imminent-vacancy scores, of expected vacancies;
providing directions to an area with the highest imminent-vacancy score of the one or more imminent-vacancy scores; or
providing an expected wait time, for parking, determined based on the one or more imminent-vacancy scores.