Patent ID: 9489846
Filing Date: 2016-11-08
CPC Classification: G01C,G06Q,G07B,G08G,H04W

Claim Text:
1. A method comprising: maintaining, at a venue management system, information identifying a parking lot associated with a venue and directions to one or more locations associated with the parking lot; maintaining an association between a user of a venue management system and the parking lot; receiving a location of a client device associated with the user; determining directions to a location associated with the parking lot based at least in part on the location of the client device; receiving information describing traffic conditions within a threshold distance of the parking lot, the traffic conditions identifying a number of spaces currently occupied in one or more additional parking lots associated with the venue; determining modified directions to the location associated with the parking lot based at least in part on the information describing the traffic conditions within the threshold distance of the parking lot and the location of the client device; communicating the modified directions to the location associated with the parking lot to the client device associated with the user; determining a current location of the client device is within a geographic area associated with the parking lot; in response to determining the current location of the client device being within the geographic area associated with the parking lot, determining directions from the location associated with the parking lot to the venue; communicating the directions from the location associated with the parking lot to the venue to the client device for presentation to the user; determining locations of additional client devices associated with additional users; determining information describing locations of the additional client devices in one or more geographic areas that are between the venue and the location associated with the parking lot; and determining the directions from the location associated with the parking lot to the venue based at least in part on the information describing locations of the additional client devices in the one or more geographic areas that are between the venue and the location associated with the parking lot.