Parking continuity with unused duration between automated vehicles

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-11301948-B2
Application number	US-201916371233-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Apr 1, 2019
Priority date	Apr 1, 2019
Publication date	Apr 12, 2022
Grant date	Apr 12, 2022

Abstract

An artificial neural network trained to predict the availability of an unused duration of a parking space based on input features is executed. Input features may include at least a contextual situation associated with the second entity, a behavior factor associated with a first entity that has been using the parking space, geographical location and time, events occurring within a threshold distance from the parking space. The artificial neural network may be further trained to output a transfer affinity based on the predicted availability of an unused duration, the contextual situation associated with the second entity and the behavior factor associated with the first entity. Based at least on the transfer affinity, the second entity can be selected. The unused duration can be transferred to the second entity from the first entity. The transferring can also include storing a payment and associated computation as a blockchain node in a blockchain.

First claim

We claim:

1. A computer-implemented method, comprising:
predicting availability of an unused duration of a parking space for a second entity, the predicting comprising executing a computer-implemented, artificial neural network trained to predict the availability of an unused duration of a parking space based on input features comprising at least a contextual situation associated with the second entity, a behavior factor associated with a first entity that has been using the parking space, geographical location and time, events occurring within a threshold distance from the parking space, the artificial neural network further trained to output a transfer affinity based on the predicted availability of an unused duration, the contextual situation associated with the second entity and the behavior factor associated with the first entity, the artificial neural network trained to predict the availability of the unused duration of the parking space predicting that the first entity is leaving the parking space so as to result in the unused duration;
based at least on the transfer affinity, selecting the second entity; and
transferring the unused duration to the second entity from the first entity, the transferring further comprising storing a payment and associated computation as a blockchain node in a blockchain,
wherein the first entity and the second entity comprise automated self-driving vehicles and the first entity is allowed to exchange data for allowing the second entity in making a real-time decision, the data including at least a video stream, characteristic of the parking space including existence of puddles on the driver's side, and time sensitive information associated with the parking space,
wherein the second entity is further operable to automatically detect that the parking space is temporarily unavailable for parking and in response autonomously drive around area of the parking space and return after an amount of time.

2. The computer-implemented method of claim 1 , wherein the transferring comprises transmitting a data packet to the second entity over a communication network, the data packet comprising header information and payload information indicating the unused duration.

3. The computer-implemented method of claim 2 , wherein the payload information in the data packet further comprises data associated with the parking space comprising at least an image of the parking space.

4. The computer-implemented method of claim 2 , wherein the payload information in the data packet further comprises data associated with the parking space comprising at least an inferred characteristic associated with the parking space.

5. The computer-implemented method of claim 1 , further comprising communicating traffic congestion data associated with an area, detected by at least one of the first entity and the second entity to a traffic authority, to allow the traffic authority to initiate creating dynamically of temporary parking spaces based on the congestion data.

6. The computer-implemented method of claim 1 , wherein the first entity and the second entity automatically exchange the unused duration and the payment.

7. The computer-implemented method of claim 1 , further comprising training an artificial intelligence model that predicts whether the second entity is heading to the parking space, the artificial intelligence model trained based on historic data associated with travel patterns of the second entity, and based on a prediction that the second entity is heading to the parking space, triggering the predicting of the availability of unused duration of a parking space.

8. A system, comprising:
at least one hardware processor;
a memory device coupled with the at least one hardware processor; and
a communication interface coupled to the at least one hardware processor;
the at least one hardware processor operable to at least perform:
predicting availability of an unused duration of a parking space for a second entity, the predicting comprising executing a computer-implemented, artificial neural network trained to predict the availability of an unused duration of a parking space based on input features comprising at least a contextual situation associated with the second entity, a behavior factor associated with a first entity that has been using the parking space, geographical location and time, events occurring within a threshold distance from the parking space, the artificial neural network further trained to output a transfer affinity based on the predicted availability of an unused duration, the contextual situation associated with the second entity and the behavior factor associated with the first entity, predicting the availability of the unused duration of the parking space including predicting that the first entity is leaving the parking space so as to result in the unused duration;
based at least on the transfer affinity, selecting the second entity; and
transferring the unused duration to the second entity from the first entity, the transferring further comprising storing a payment and associated computation as a blockchain node in a blockchain,
wherein the first entity and the second entity comprise automated self-driving vehicles and the first entity is allowed to exchange data for allowing the second entity in making a real-time decision, the data including at least a video stream, characteristic of the parking space including existence of puddles on the driver's side, and time sensitive information associated with the parking space,
wherein the second entity is further operable to automatically detect that the parking space is temporarily unavailable for parking and in response autonomously drive around area of the parking space and return after an amount of time.

9. The system of claim 8 , wherein the at least one hardware processor transferring the unused duration comprises transmitting a data packet to the second entity over a communication network, the data packet comprising header information and payload information indicating the unused duration.

10. The system of claim 9 , wherein the payload information in the data packet further comprises data associated with the parking space comprising at least an image of the parking space.

11. The system of claim 9 , wherein the payload information in the data packet further comprises data associated with the parking space comprising at least an inferred characteristic associated with the parking space.

12. The system of claim 8 , further comprising communicating traffic congestion data associated with an area, detected by at least one of the first entity and the second entity to a traffic authority, to allow the traffic authority to initiate creating dynamically of temporary parking spaces based on the congestion data.

13. The system of claim 8 , wherein the first entity and the second entity automatically exchange the unused duration and the payment.

14. The system of claim 8 , further comprising training an artificial intelligence model that predicts whether the second entity is heading to the parking space, the artificial intelligence model trained based on historic data associated with travel patterns of the second entity, and based on a prediction that the second entity is heading to the parking space, triggering the predicting of the availability of unused duration of a parking space.

15. A computer readable storage medium storing a program of instructions executable by a machine to perform a method, comprising:
predicting availability of an unused duration of a parking space for a second entity, the predicting comprising executing a computer-implem

Assignees

• IBM

Inventors

• Weldemariam Komminist
• Markus Serfaty Isaac
• Gordon Michael S
• Kozloski James R
• Kwatra Shikhar

Classifications

• G06N3/092

  Reinforcement learning · CPC title

• G06N3/0499

  Feedforward networks · CPC title

• G06N3/09

  Supervised learning · CPC title

• G06Q20/4015

  using location information · CPC title

• G06Q2240/00

  Transportation facility access, e.g. fares, tolls or parking · CPC title