Patent ID: 9213957
Filing Date: 2015-12-15
Classification: G06Q

Abstract:
1. A computer-implemented method remotely providing just-in-time loading zone parking reservations over a communications network, comprising executing on a processor the steps of: determining in a computer with a memory a next delivery destination in the memory for a delivery driver; booking a just-in-time parking reservation for the delivery driver in the memory, comprising the steps of: continuously remotely ascertaining the delivery driver's progress from the computer over the communications network through a navigational system and estimating a time of arrival of the delivery driver at the selected parking location in the memory; delaying the start time in the memory of the just-in-time parking reservation in the memory based on the estimated time of arrival in the memory; determining an amount of time in the memory between the estimated time of arrival in the memory and the start time in the memory of the just-in-time parking reservation in the memory for parking in the selected parking location by drivers other than the delivery driver for a short term; remotely updating the driver-discernable parking availability indicator signage that is physically located near the selected parking location to indicate that the selected parking location is available for parking for the short term from the computer over the communications network; sensing remotely from the computer over the communications network occupancy of the parking location through an occupancy sensor that is physically located near the selected parking location and storing the occupancy in the memory; accepting from the computer over the communications network a check-in in the memory to the selected parking location comprising an estimated time of departure when the estimated time of departure in the memory is prior to the delayed start time in the memory of the just-in-time parking reservation in the memory; sensing remotely from the computer over the communications network vacancy of the parking location through the occupancy sensor that is physically located near the selected parking location; and remotely updating the driver-discernable parking availability indicator signage that is physically located near the selected parking location to indicate the loading zone that has again been reserved for the delivery driver from the computer over the communications network.