Method and system for avoidance of parking violations

摘要

Disclosed is a system and method for alerting users on how to avoid receiving parking violation citations. A location determining apparatus identifies a location of a user. A database stores historical parking violation citations, real-time crowdsourced parking violation citations, and other parking violation related information with a verification algorithm and an inference algorithm. Parking intent is determined by a user's location and speed and once the determination is made, the database is polled to identify whether potential parking violations exist, where an alert will be sent. A forum functionality allows information exchange and idea sharing about parking violation citations and avoidance thereof. Crowdsourced parking violation related data is gathered using an incentive method with rewards and a parking ticket payment module collects parking violation-related information for the database. Historical weather data is used to predict the impact on current parking situations.

主权项

1. A system with one or more computing devices comprising a wired or wireless source of communications, one or more memory units to memorize and store various data, and one or more processors coupled to said one or more memory units, wherein said one or more memory units instruct said one or more processors to map and store parking violation related data and notify a user on how to avoid receiving parking violation citations, said system comprising:
a clock mechanism to determine a present time and date; a unified database comprising historical parking violation related data interactively correlated to real-time crowdsourced parking violation related data clustered into two data types consisting of commercial vehicle related data and non-commercial vehicle related data, said historical parking violation data comprising one or more of: parking rules, violation codes, one of more parking violation statutory codes or more abbreviations used by parking enforcement personnel, one or more associated fines or other penalties, one or more parking signs with one or more locations, one or more associated parking meter cost with parking meter locations, one or more notices for temporary or permanent parking prohibitions, one or more tow away zone locations, and one or more parking violations citation records; a forum module for crowdsourcing said parking violation related data to assist said user in avoiding said parking violation citations; a location determining apparatus to identify a current location of said user, wherein said location determining apparatus is connected to said unified database such that one or more notifications of parking related information corresponded to said current location and correspond to said user's type, wherein said user type comprises commercial vehicle user type and non-commercial vehicle user type; a processing apparatus connected to said unified database to analyze said parking violation related data to predict said user potentially being in violation of one or more parking rules or regulations; a display apparatus connected to said processing apparatus; and a notification apparatus for generating a set of notifications of potential parking related violations, wherein said set of notifications of potential parking related violations are issued to said user based on said user type to which said user belongs.