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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 04, 2021
Filed:
Dec. 02, 2016
Citifyd, Inc., Portland, OR (US);
Sohrab Vossoughi, Portland, OR (US);
Samuel Spencer Jeibmann, Portland, OR (US);
Andrew Stam Parnell, Portland, OR (US);
Dave Cole, Portland, OR (US);
Alma Emadi, Portland, OR (US);
Christopher J. Vondrachek, Tigard, OR (US);
Ken Dieringer, Portland, OR (US);
Massoud Mollaghaffari, Tigard, OR (US);
CITIFYD, INC., Portland, OR (US);
Abstract
A vehicle parking and mass transport beacon system () implemented with a beacon device () configured as a wireless identifier and authentication mechanism offers a user a capability of bypassing infrastructures of commercial parking lots and facilities, mass transit systems, and taxi services when using them. The beacon system includes a source beacon and a user beacon, the latter of which implemented in a user smart device () such as a smartphone. The use of a source beacon and user smart device enables elimination of reliance on a cellular communication connection from the time of the user's grant of permission for action to the time of separation of the user smart device and the beacon by a distance outside the range of connectivity between them. Such elimination of reliance on cellular communication connection avoids delay and communication coverage issues stemming from use of a cellular communication network.