US 9123034

US Patent 9123034, titled "Methods and systems for electronic payment for parking using autonomous position sensing," was issued to TRANSPARENT WIRELESS SYSTEMS LLC.

Here is a summary of the patent:

• Title: Methods and systems for electronic payment for parking using autonomous position sensing
• Assignee: TRANSPARENT WIRELESS SYSTEMS LLC
• Inventors: Nils Rydbeck, Santanu Dutta
• Filing Date: April 15, 2013
• Issue Date: September 1, 2015
• Abstract: The patent describes a method and system for wireless payment of parking fees for vehicles, applicable to both open street and closed garage parking. It aims to enhance user and checker experiences through several means, including: autonomous sensing of user/vehicle location with user correction capabilities; automatic sensing of vehicle ID by a handset; rapid and facile enforcement by providing checkers with real-time vehicle information (location, session status, attributes) on a portable terminal; and further facilitating identification of vehicles with expired sessions via RF interrogation of tags in/on vehicles by the checking terminal.

Plain-Language Overview of Independent Claims:

The patent contains several independent claims covering different aspects of the invention. Below is a plain-language overview of each:

• Claim 1 (System for payment for parking): This claim describes a system for parking payment that includes a wireless communication device (like a handset or an in-vehicle system) with a positioning device to determine its location, a transceiver for server communication, and a processor. The processor determines the device's location, starts a parking session with the server, sends the device's location and vehicle/user ID to the server, and allows the user to correct the determined location.
• Claim 7 (Method of payment for parking): This claim outlines a method for parking payment that involves determining a vehicle's location using a wireless communication device, initiating a parking session with a server, transmitting the device's location and vehicle/user ID to the server, and allowing a user to correct the determined location.
• Claim 13 (System to determine identity of a vehicle): This claim describes a system to identify a vehicle using an identification device within the vehicle that can be sensed by a sensor in a wireless communication device. The wireless device has a transceiver for server communication and a processor configured to sense the vehicle's identity from the identification device and send it to the server.
• Claim 17 (Method of determining identity of a vehicle): This claim details a method for determining a vehicle's identity by sensing the vehicle's identity from an identification device in the vehicle using a wireless communication device and then sending that identity to a server.
• Claim 21 (System of identification of vehicles with expired parking status): This claim covers a system for identifying vehicles with an expired parking status. It includes a wireless identification tag in or on a parked vehicle and a portable Checking Terminal capable of wirelessly reading the tag. The Checking Terminal receives information about parked vehicles from a server and then wirelessly interrogates the tags to identify those with expired parking sessions.
• Claim 24 (Method of identifying vehicles with an expired parking status): This claim describes a method for identifying vehicles with expired parking status by receiving information about a parked vehicle from a server and then wirelessly interrogating a wireless identification tag in or on the parked vehicle with a portable Checking Terminal to identify vehicles with expired sessions.
• Claim 27 (System of payment for parking in gated garages): This claim describes a system for parking payment in gated garages, featuring a wireless communication device (handset or in-vehicle) with a parking application configured to communicate with a server. It also includes a terminal for a garage employee connected to the server. The device automatically senses the parking location, allows user corrections, wirelessly sends the location and vehicle/user ID to the server to start a session, and conveys payment confirmation as a data set to both the device and the employee's terminal.
• Claim 29 (Method of payment for parking in gated garages): This claim outlines a method for parking payment in gated garages, involving automatically sensing a parking location with a wireless communication device, allowing user corrections via a parking application, wirelessly transmitting the location and vehicle/user ID to a server to start a session, and conveying payment confirmation as a data set to both the device and a garage employee's terminal.
• Claim 31 (System of payment for parking in open streets): This claim describes a system for open street parking payment using subsystems built into a vehicle's electronic system. It includes a wireless data modem for server communication, a parking application software, and a positioning subsystem that uses satellite and inertial navigation technologies. This positioning subsystem automatically senses the vehicle's location, and the parking application sends the location and vehicle/user ID to the server to start a parking session.
• Claim 32 (Method of payment for parking in open streets): This claim details a method for open street parking payment using vehicle electronic subsystems. It involves automatically sensing the vehicle's location with a positioning subsystem (using satellite and inertial navigation) and sending that location and vehicle/user ID to a server via a wireless data modem to start a parking session.

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