US 11,257,302 C1 (12,871st)
Parking meter system
Thomas G. Hudson, Tonka Bay, MN (US); Joseph M. Caldwell, Chanhassen, MN (US); and Richard C. Gage, Orono, MN (US)
Filed by Municipal Parking Services, Inc., Minnetonka, MN (US)
Assigned to MUNICIPAL PARKING SERVICES INC., Minnetonka, MN (US)
Reexamination Request No. 90/019,637, Aug. 28, 2024.
Reexamination Certificate for Patent 11,257,302, issued Feb. 22, 2022, Appl. No. 16/900,987, Jun. 14, 2020.
Application 90/019,637 is a continuation of application No. 16/579,816, filed on Sep. 23, 2019, granted, now 10,685,501.
Application 16/579,816 is a continuation of application No. 16/195,828, filed on Nov. 19, 2018, granted, now 10,424,125.
Application 16/195,828 is a continuation of application No. 15/714,916, filed on Sep. 25, 2017, granted, now 10,134,201.
Application 15/714,916 is a continuation 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. 20, 2025.
Int. Cl. G07B 15/02 (2011.01); G07F 17/24 (2006.01)
CPC 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 1-8 and 12-14 is confirmed.
Claims 9-11 were not reexamined.
1. A method of monitoring and managing parking in a parking lot having an entrance and an exit, the method comprising:
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;
determining an identification of the vehicle entering the parking lot, including performing a license plate recognition of a plurality of characters on a license plate on the vehicle using the captured image data of the vehicle entering 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;
determining an identification of the vehicle exiting the parking lot;
determining that a parking violation has occurred due to a time period expiring without the vehicle exiting the lot prior the time period expiring; and
issuing a parking violation notice.