US 10,121,172 C1 (12,869th)
Parking lot monitoring system
Thomas G. Hudson, Tonka Bay, MN (US); Joseph M. Caldwell, Chanhassen, MN (US); Richard C. Gage, Orono, MN (US); and Nataliia Danko, Vancouver (CA)
Filed by MUNICIPAL PARKING SERVICES INC., Minnetonka, MN (US)
Assigned to MUNICIPAL PARKING SERVICES INC., Minnetonka, MN (US)
Reexamination Request No. 90/019,635, Aug. 28, 2024.
Reexamination Certificate for Patent 10,121,172, issued Nov. 6, 2018, Appl. No. 14/214,844, Mar. 15, 2014.
Application 90/019,635 is a continuation in part of application No. 14/164,177, filed on Jan. 25, 2014, granted, now 9,773,351.
Claims priority of provisional application 61/887,319, filed on Oct. 4, 2013.
Claims priority of provisional application 61/887,324, filed on Oct. 4, 2013.
Claims priority of provisional application 61/794,596, filed on Mar. 15, 2013.
Claims priority of provisional application 61/756,854, filed on Jan. 25, 2013.
Ex Parte Reexamination Certificate issued on Mar. 19, 2025.
Int. Cl. G06Q 30/0283 (2023.01); G07B 15/02 (2011.01); G07F 17/24 (2006.01)
CPC G06Q 30/0284 (2013.01) [G07B 15/02 (2013.01); G07F 17/246 (2013.01)]
OG exemplary drawing
AS A RESULT OF REEXAMINATION, IT HAS BEEN DETERMINED THAT:
The patentability of claims 12-16, 18, and 19 is confirmed.
Claims 1-11, 17, and 20 were not reexamined.
12. A method of monitoring and managing parking in a parking lot having an entrance and an exit, the method comprising:
sensing a vehicle entering the parking lot;
capturing image data of the vehicle entering the parking lot and transmitting the image data to a remote networked computer system;
recording a time of entry for the vehicle entering the parking lot and transmitting the time of entry to the remote networked computer system;
determining an identification of the vehicle entering the parking lot;
sensing the vehicle exiting the parking lot;
capturing image data of the vehicle exiting the parking lot and transmitting the image data to the remote networked computer system;
recording a time of exit for the vehicle exiting the parking lot and transmitting the time of exit to the remote networked computer system;
determining an identification of the vehicle exiting the parking lot;
determining that a parking violation has occurred due to a parking time period expiring without the vehicle exiting the lot prior the parking period expiring;
communicating notice of the parking violation to the remote networked computer system.