Data processing: financial – business practice – management – or co – Automated electrical financial or business practice or... – Transportation facility access
Reexamination Certificate
2008-02-26
2011-11-01
Boyce, Akiba Robinson (Department: 3628)
Data processing: financial, business practice, management, or co
Automated electrical financial or business practice or...
Transportation facility access
C340S932200, C705S418000
Reexamination Certificate
active
08050963
ABSTRACT:
A method for assessing fees for parking is disclosed. The method includes determining the length of a vehicle and assessing a parking fee based upon that vehicle length. The disclosed method may also include marking at least a portion of the selected parking area in increments of length or marking the length of a vehicle on that vehicle. Embodiments of the method are also disclosed that include calculating the parking fee so that a longer vehicle is charged more than a shorter vehicle for parking in the selected parking area. Other embodiments of the disclosed method include calculating the parking fee based on different length ranges that include at least a first length range and a second length range. The first length range has lengths that are shorter than lengths in the second length range. The parking fee is based on which length range the length of the vehicle falls within.
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Boyce Akiba Robinson
Buchanan & Ingersoll & Rooney PC
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