Patent ID: 8862494
Filing Date: 2014-10-14
Classification: G06Q,G07B,G07F

Abstract:
1. A single space new parking meter device, comprising: a wireless communications element configured to: a timing mechanism for measuring time spent parking; and a payment mechanism for accepting payment for parking; wherein at least a portion of the timing mechanism and/or at least a portion of the payment mechanism extends into an interior space of a housing base of a formerly separate single space old parking meter device, the housing base having surfaces defining the interior space, the interior space having an open top; wherein the new parking meter device is configured to retrofit the old parking meter device by being receivable into the housing base of the old parking meter device through the open to such that the extending portion of the new parking meter device is at least partially enclosed in the interior space of the housing base and by engaging with the housing base to replace: (1) the rest of the original exterior housing of the old parking meter device, and (2) the original interior contents of the old parking meter device; and wherein the retrofitting results in a post-retrofitted parking meter device comprising the new parking meter device and the housing base of the old parking meter device.