Patent ID: 7957900

Claim:
A computer implemented method to automatically track/identify respective parking slots and movement slots occupied by respective individual vehicles of a group of vehicles crowded together in a parking lot to enable definitive, real time, display of the vehicles' respective parking and movement slots on a GUI, comprising the steps of: determining a set of business environment rules based on compatibility of respective slots with respective vehicles for providing relative probabilities of occupation of respective slots by respective vehicles; determining raw distances of respective vehicles from respective slots; adjusting values of raw distances of respective vehicles from respective potential slots according to the respective probabilities of occupation as determined by the business environmental rules so that the relative proximities of slots to respective vehicles increase with increasing probabilities of occupation as compared with relative proximities derived from the raw distances; ranking the respective slots in order of most proximate to respective vehicles, as derived from the adjusted values of raw distances and, placing respective vehicles in respective top ranked slots for real-time display on a GUI and, so that any slot occupying vehicles are replaced by more proximate vehicles and replaced vehicles are then placed in successively ranked slots.