Patent ID: 8423275

Claim:
A procedure for determining the probability of finding a parking place within a certain period of time on a pre-set stretch of a road of an area with a multiplicity of stretches of road, wherein motion profiles are detected and statistically evaluated of users of radiolocation-aided, especially satellite-aided, navigation aids in the area, wherein for each user: a) a “parking place found” event is determined; b) a stretch of the road in which the “parking place found” event occurred is detected; c) a travel time is detected which elapsed for the user in each of the multiplicity of stretches of the road until the “parking place found” event occurred, and wherein data is acquired from steps a) through c) for a multiplicity of users; and, from the data thus acquired, a probability is determined of finding a parking place within the set period of time on the stretch of the road; and wherein the motion profile of the user in the area according to the above-named criteria is only evaluated if the user is recognized as being in search of a parking place, wherein the user is recognized as being in search of a parking place if he is in motion in the area for longer than a preset minimum time at a speed that is less than a minimum speed and/or if he passes by the stretch of the road at least a second time.