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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 26, 2014
Filed:
Sep. 21, 2012
Palo Alto Research Center Incorporated, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Mark J Stefik, Portola Valley, CA (US);
Kristian Lyngbaek, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Christopher R. Dance, Granoble, FR;
Shrenik Devasani, Redwood City, CA (US);
Craig Eldershaw, Belmont, CA (US);
Roger Hoover, San Bruno, CA (US);
Ellen Isaacs, San Jose, CA (US);
Peter Jarvis, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Sylvia Smullin, Menlo Park, CA (US);
Makiko Taniguchi, San Francisco, CA (US);
Francisco E Torres, San Jose, CA (US);
Alan G Bell, Los Altos, CA (US);
Robert Thomas Krivacic, San Jose, CA (US);
Palo Alto Research Center Incorporated, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Abstract
A computer-implemented system and method for managing interchangeable parking spaces is provided. A parking pool that includes a plurality of parking spaces, which are each interchangeably reservable by motorists, is formed. The parking spaces in the parking pool that are currently-occupied by other vehicles and any reservations by motorists to park their vehicles in the parking pool are identified. The number of the parking spaces in the parking pool free of the currently-occupied parking spaces and the parking spaces in the parking pool that will be used to fulfill the reservations, plus the time available for parking in the parking pool, are displayed.