US 11,704,655 B2
High accuracy geo-location system and method for mobile payment
Jaime Andres Borras, Miramar, FL (US); Wyatt Drake Geist, Davie, FL (US); Richard Carrier, Newport Beach, CA (US); and James Edward Borras, Miami Lakes, FL (US)
Assigned to GeoToll, Inc., Plantation, FL (US)
Filed by GEOTOLL, INC., Cooper City, FL (US)
Filed on Apr. 8, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/716,336.
Application 17/716,336 is a division of application No. 16/237,070, filed on Dec. 31, 2018, granted, now 11,315,101.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/611,973, filed on Dec. 29, 2017.
Prior Publication US 2022/0230158 A1, Jul. 21, 2022
Int. Cl. G06Q 40/00 (2023.01); G06Q 20/32 (2012.01); G08G 1/052 (2006.01); G06F 16/29 (2019.01); G01S 19/42 (2010.01); B60W 50/16 (2020.01); G06Q 20/08 (2012.01); G06Q 20/14 (2012.01); G06V 20/59 (2022.01)
CPC G06Q 20/3224 (2013.01) [B60W 50/16 (2013.01); G01S 19/42 (2013.01); G06F 16/29 (2019.01); G06Q 20/085 (2013.01); G06Q 20/145 (2013.01); G06V 20/593 (2022.01); G08G 1/052 (2013.01); G06Q 2240/00 (2013.01)] 5 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method for automatically identifying a parking space for a vehicle and a charge associated therewith, comprising:
defining, for each parking space of a plurality of parking spaces, a plurality of location polygons, each location polygon of the plurality of location polygons being defined by a set of geo-location coordinates corresponding to a real location in a corresponding physical parking space;
at a mobile computing device executing a parking application program, loading a localized map of the plurality of parking spaces based on a present location of the mobile computing device, the map including the plurality of location polygons for each parking space in the localized map;
comparing the present location of a vehicle in which the mobile computing device is located with the geo-location coordinates of at least one of the plurality of location polygons for the plurality of parking spaces;
determining that the vehicle is presently in one of the plurality of parking spaces based on a correlation between the present location of the vehicle and one set of geo-location coordinates of the plurality of location polygons of the one of the plurality of parking spaces;
determining that the vehicle has stopped;
responsive to determining that the vehicle has stopped and is presently in one of the plurality of parking space, the mobile computing device indicating that the vehicle is properly parked; and
determining a parking charge in response to determining that the vehicle is presently in the one of the plurality of parking spaces.