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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Aug. 31, 2021

Filed:

Jun. 28, 2018
Applicant:

International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);

Inventors:

Doina L. Klinger, Winchester, GB;

David J. Nice, Southampton, GB;

Rebecca M. Quaggin-Mitchell, Botley, GB;

Fenglian Xu, Hampshire, GB;

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01C 21/36 (2006.01); H04W 4/024 (2018.01); G01C 21/20 (2006.01); H04W 4/02 (2018.01); H04L 29/08 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G01C 21/3661 (2013.01); G01C 21/20 (2013.01); H04L 67/18 (2013.01); H04W 4/024 (2018.02); H04W 4/026 (2013.01);
Abstract

In an approach for providing navigational assistance to a target location in a vehicle parking facility, a processor accesses stored vehicle registration numbers each mapped to a location of a vehicle in a parking facility in a database. A processor associates a user with a target vehicle registration number. A processor receives input of a reference vehicle registration number from a mobile user device at a current location of the user using an input component of the mobile user device and references the database of vehicle registration numbers. A processor identifies a current location in the parking facility by look up of the reference registration number; identifies a user's target location in the parking facility by look up of the target registration number associated with the user; and generates dynamic navigational instructions from the current location to the user's target location for sending to the mobile user device.


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