Patent ID: 9418553
Filing Date: 2016-08-16
CPC Classification: G06Q,G08G,H04N

Claim Text:
1. A method, comprising: encoding a computer program comprising a computing platform application on a tangible computer readable medium for performing a sequence of functions on a computing platform including a mobile phone, a tablet, or a personal computer: a user activating the application, the application transmitting a request for an information on locations of available parking spaces, accommodating a specific size vehicle, proximate to a location of the computing platform, to a central processor comprising hardware and software, the application receiving a transmitted response from the central processor comprising information on real time available parking spaces off a street and an available parking space in a parking facility and associated information including locations and directions to the available parking spaces, a parking fee where the available parking spaces are not occupied by an automobile, a bicycle, a motorcycle, a no parking sign sandwich board, or a traffic cone, based on comparison of images from parking spaces with a plurality of reference images in a database of reference images, comprising images of an unoccupied parking space, images of vehicles including a series of automobiles, bicycles, and motorcycles, and reference images of a traffic cone and a no parking sign sandwich board, the application further displaying and / or audio broadcasting the received information on the computing platform, and the user selecting one of the available parking spaces.