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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 09, 2021
Filed:
Feb. 20, 2017
Zipcar, Inc., Boston, MA (US);
Gregory John McGuire, Austin, TX (US);
Jonathan Eric Wolfe, Cambridge, MA (US);
ZIPCAR, INC., Boston, MA (US);
Abstract
A method of providing reservation status relating to a group of objects includes providing a database for containing (i) availability data describing availability of at least one of the group of objects, and (ii) reservation data describing allocation of at least one of the group of objects. The availability data and the reservation data are stored in sparse form. The method further includes extracting, from the database, availability data and reservation data corresponding to a predetermined period of time, and combining the extracted availability data and reservation data to form windowed data in a dense format. The method also includes receiving the windowed data and providing the windowed data in a bit-vector view, and sampling the windowed data in the bit-vector view to produce sampled data. The sampled data provides the reservation status as a static view of the windowed data in the bit-vector view.