Computer-implemented system and method for hands-free tagging and reserving of parking spaces
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.
Palo Alto Research Center Incorporated Xerox Corporation
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James Serdar Ellen Mark Jeffrey Francisco Eduardo Daniel H. Lance E. Alan G. Craig David Preston
Glasnapp Uckun Isaacs Stefik Torres Greene Good Bell Eldershaw Cummins