Patent ID: 9685085
Date: 2017-06-20
CPC Classifications: G06Q,G08G

Claim:
1. A computer-implemented system for providing available parking spaces, comprising: a database to associate each of a plurality of parking spaces with a hold time, wherein each hold time comprises a time during which vehicles are prevented from parking within that parking space; an assignment module to assign shorter hold times to those parking spaces associated with parking variables that are desirable to a user based on user preferences and to assign longer hold times to those parking spaces with the parking variables that are less desirable based on user preferences; a receipt module to receive from the user, a request for an available parking space; an identification module to identify one or more of the parking spaces as available; a duration module to determine a duration of time for arrival of the user to each of the available parking spaces; a threshold module to apply the hold time for each available parking space to the user's duration of time for arrival to that available parking space; a selection module to select at least one of the available parking spaces for which the user's duration of time for arrival is less than the hold time; a notification module to provide the selected available parking spaces to the user; a parking account maintained for the user; a reservation module to receive from the user a selection of one of the selected available parking spaces via the parking account and to reserve the selected available parking space as a reserved parking space to prevent others from parking in the selected available parking space; and a processor to execute the modules.