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Date of Patent:
Jul. 16, 2019

Filed:

Apr. 18, 2018
Applicant:

Citifyd, Inc., Portland, OR (US);

Inventors:

Dave Cole, Portland, OR (US);

Sohrab Vossoughi, Portland, OR (US);

Igor Cornelio Lira, Recife, BR;

Gabriel Lopes, Portland, OR (US);

Assignee:

Citifyd, Inc., Portland, OR (US);

Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G08G 1/14 (2006.01); G06F 16/957 (2019.01); G06F 16/958 (2019.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G08G 1/144 (2013.01); G06F 16/958 (2019.01); G06F 16/9577 (2019.01); G08G 1/145 (2013.01);
Abstract

Systems and methods communicate parking access information between a host application associated with an operator of a parking area and a web application associated with a parking fee management provider for facilitating access, by a user carrying a smartphone, to the parking area secured by an external smart object. The external smart object is controllable through operation of the web application and actuatable through wireless personal area network (WPAN) communications exchanged between the smartphone and the external smart object in response to the operation of the web application causing the host application to generate the WPAN communications.


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