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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 17, 2013
Filed:
Jul. 13, 2011
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);
James Glasnapp, San Rafael, CA (US);
Ellen Isaacs, San Jose, CA (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);
James Glasnapp, San Rafael, CA (US);
Ellen Isaacs, San Jose, CA (US);
Xerox Corporation, Norwalk, CT (US);
Palo Alto Research Center Incorporated, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Abstract
A computer-implemented system and method for tagging a parking space for a motor vehicle through a gesture is provided. Motor vehicle parking spaces are managed through a server. Smart parking devices physically proximate to the parking spaces are interfaced. Vehicle occupancy sensors also physically proximate the parking spaces are interfaced. Parking availability indicators associated with the parking spaces are interfaced. Those parking spaces that are unoccupied based on their respective vehicle occupancy sensors and currently available over any other reservations stored in the server are identified to a driver of a motor vehicle. One of the unoccupied parking spaces is reserved upon a gesture provided by the driver. Occupancy of the reserved unoccupied parking space is sensed through the nearest vehicle occupancy sensor following parking of the motor vehicle. The identity of the motorist is verified against the reservation through the nearest smart parking device.