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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 26, 2019
Filed:
Mar. 10, 2014
Palo Alto Research Center Incorporated, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Xerox Corporation, Norwalk, CT (US);
Mark Jeffrey Stefik, Portola Valley, CA (US);
Alan G. Bell, Los Altos, CA (US);
Craig Eldershaw, Belmont, CA (US);
Lance E. Good, Gaithersburg, MD (US);
Daniel H. Greene, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Francisco Eduardo Torres, San Jose, CA (US);
Serdar Uckun, Palo Alto, CA (US);
David Preston Cummins, Washington, DC (US);
Conduent Business Services, LLC, Florham Park, NJ (US);
Abstract
A computer-implemented system and method for offering merchant and shopper-friendly parking reservations through tourist privileges is provided. Motor vehicle parking spaces located in a tourist area of an urban environment are managed through a server. Smart parking devices and vehicle occupancy sensors are each proximate to at least one of the parking spaces. Tourist parking identification cards are issued to an agency authorized to provide tourist parking privileges, which are then provided to the visitors. The parking identification cards are activated by pairing each identification card with a digital ticket issued to the agency. The parking spaces are managed by sensing occupancy of one of the parking spaces by a motor vehicle through the nearest vehicle occupancy sensor and by determining an identity of the driver of the motor vehicle through the nearest smart parking device.