Patent Application
20230280188
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The instant disclosure generally relates to navigation and/or vehicle guidance systems for traffic and parking control purposes and systems in which vehicles are guided by instructions to the vehicles and/or their operators. Specifically, the instant disclosure relates to navigation systems by which indication is given to a vehicle operator as to the location of points of interest through a variety of means of wireless electronic communication among a plurality of devices which may include distant and local networks, mobile devices, vehicle-installed devices, networked sensors, and/or combinations of the like.
In most major cities and even among some town centers in smaller towns and villages, there often exists a shortage of parking for the number of vehicles wishing to park, especially during peak hours for any given area. For instance, a business center of a city may experience parking shortages during working hours, the restaurant or shopping center may experience parking shortages during evenings, “lunch rushes”, or weekends. As a result, some or many drivers wishing to park in such an area during such a peak time may experience difficulty and frustration when attempting to drive, park, exit their vehicle, and arrive at their intended destination in time for what may be an important deadline. Some vehicle drivers and their occupants may be forced to travel amongst parking lots and city streets in search for unoccupied parking, often balancing the urgent need to park their vehicle with the expense related to a given spot, the distance from their intended destination, and the convenience of accessing the destination from an available parking spot, among various other potential considerations. Driving or “cruising” through an area, only for the necessity of finding parking, when done by a sufficient number of drivers in their vehicles, may only further frustrate an already frustrating situation by causing an increase in traffic on a given parking lot or roadway. During peak periods of occupancy, drivers in search of parking may account for a substantial portion of those occupying a city street or town center.
Therefore, on city streets and in town centers, parking spaces often become limited commodities. Each space may be of value to residents while they are at their home, merchants while they desire access to parking for their patrons during business hours, the same patrons to those merchants' retail stores, tourists, and visitors to government buildings, among various others. In order to better allocate the parking space as a commodity, local governments and private parking owners often establish policies and procedures around who may park where and at what time. Furthermore, individual spaces or access to lots may be sold or leased much like real estate or a commodity, where a parking fee is paid for a given period of access to parking in an area or spot or a parking spot is sold outright for one person's, organization's or the like's access. In these cases, machines may be installed to either govern access or meter time available to the driver while parked. Other measures to implement these policies may include lot attendants, parking meter attendants, and towing companies. Even with these measures in place, the marketplace of parking spaces as commodities may have inefficiencies which cause few spaces to remain in a city or town center, despite drivers who may be seeking a space for their vehicles to park and their willingness to pay for that privilege. This may further frustrate the scenario outlined above, when at peak times many drivers travel multiple times passed various locations in search of parking, further congesting traffic in that area.
Primitive attempts to resolve these frustrations have included visible signage or lot attendants directing drivers to vehicle parking within busy city centers. These signs, still present on many roadways, usually include the direction of parking, a universal symbol for parking that usually consists of the letter “P” within a circle, and possibly the distance from the sign or the flat or hourly fee to park in a given area. Improvements to these systems may include interchangeable placards which lot attendants may manually change to indicate whether or how many open spots exist generally in a given area or lot, light matrixes or other electronic visual displays to indicate the same, or lot attendants using visual or audible cues to direct drivers to available areas for parking. The latter improvement can often be witnessed at major events where abnormally large numbers of travelers may be expected to arrive at a given time and place, such as a concert or sporting event. These systems may be extremely helpful for both those familiar and not familiar to an area as they are generally obvious and recognizable to drivers, especially those in search of places to park their vehicle. However, various shortfalls exist in these solutions. They include, but are not limited to the expenses related to signs, labor, placards, digital or electronic signage, and maintenance as well as they often do not provide real-time availability of the existence of free parking spaces.
With the advent of in-vehicle navigation assistant devices and, more recently, mobile devices like smartphones capable of determining real-time geolocation, having increased processing capabilities, and capable of wireless communication, many solutions for vehicle navigation have offered, in addition to their navigation services, services to indicate the geolocation of areas which parking may be available. These systems often display public and/or private parking areas designated by a “pin” that may or may not include the universal parking symbol. A driver using one of these systems may be able to view parking areas relative to their current location or a destination on a map that updates their own real-time location. This allows a driver to more easily navigate to convenient areas which may feature available parking, and may even provide visual and/or audio guidance in a turn-by-turn manner. Some such applications may even allow its users to pay for an allotted time in a specified spot or area within the application, avoiding the need to operate a parking meter. These systems may be extremely helpful to those drivers, both those who are familiar and those who are not familiar with an area as they can orient a driver and indicate in two-dimensional space where they may look for parking that may be available. In combination with more primitive technologies, such as physical signs, they may provide a driver with a sufficient combination of tools by which they may seek out available parking. However, even with this combination of systems and tools, drivers may be left cross-referencing a number of systems to verify if parking indeed does exist at a time and place where parking may exist. Therefore, there is a need for drivers for a method to obtain real-time information about available parking via a system to facilitate the sharing of real-time information about available parking.
An additional deficiency with the available systems to locate parking, even in combinations, is the lack of information or the lack of real-time information about the availability of parking in a given area. Since keeping such an updated database or system for continually monitoring parking availability, especially over large areas or globally, may require constant monitoring, supervision, surveillance, sensors, and various types of human involvement such as actively monitoring and communicating about available parking areas, and doing so only when parking becomes scarce may require disparate human and technological resources in a given time and place, few systems, even in combination, may provide adequate and reliable information about where drivers may seek out and obtain a space to park their vehicle. Even if such a system or combination of systems were to exist, multiple drivers being notified of the same spot or a driver not employing such a system finding a spot after another driver has been notified but has yet to reach the spot, may lead a driver through traffic to a space only for he or she to find it has since become occupied. Additionally, these applications may be limited to or at least exclusively designed for drivers. This limits the potential pool of individuals who may voluntarily update such a proposed system with current information, thereby decreasing its accuracy and value.
Real estate tools for real estate agents and those wishing to buy/sell properties often enable the finding and marketing available properties, but these tools are generally text based and include minimal photos provided in a linear result list sorted by price. To access more information about a property, the agent, buyer, or other person performing a search must ‘drill down’ through a series of web pages, clicking several times, spawning new web pages for viewing maps, school district, tax, and other information. More often than not, buyers, sellers, real estate agents, and the public, generally, shop for homes using a combination of web-based tools and driving to locate, view, inspect, and determine whether to purchase a particular property. However, even advanced applications for modern real estate shoppers, such as ZILLOW® and TRULIA®, often lack robust navigational tools. This often leaves users of these apps to shop in two methods simultaneously: online, via an app, and physically. And while those users using those apps may have available to them the ability to view properties based on a current location, they cannot “plot” their route, access a property, and navigate from one property to another without leaving the app and opening another map purpose-built for navigation. Additionally, listing properties often involves complicated systems which require credentialed access in order to list a property. This often leaves unrepresented buyers with limited means to market their homes to the public, or to those shopping for real estate.
The instant disclosure is designed to address at least some aspects of the problems discussed above. The system and method for facilitating real-time sharing of location of a point of interest described herein may be designed to replace or work alongside these common methods of seeking out and locating available parking or properties for sale. Indeed, in order to facilitate such a method, such a system may rely in part or solely on information provided by its users so as to avoid the resources and costs associated with monitoring the availability of parking and cataloging the like. By using a system and method for sharing real-time information about parking and real estate listings, drivers and non-driving users may help overcome many of the limitations of the systems and methods described above.
Briefly described, in a possibly preferred embodiment, the present disclosure overcomes the above-mentioned disadvantages and meets the recognized need for such a system and method by utilizing information provided by a plurality of end users, namely drivers and non-driving users, and cataloguing that information alongside relevant information such as time-of-day, geolocation, pricing information, the like and combinations thereof as it or they may relate to a point of interest (e.g., parking spot or real estate listing). Such a plurality of users may be encouraged to, through a variety of means, share real-time information with other users about the availability of parking or a home for sale located near them at any point on the planet. When a user shares this real-time information about parking or a real estate listing, a subset of other users of such a service may be notified of the availability of parking based on a number of factors. These may include, but are not limited to, their geographic proximity to the user sharing the information, their relationship, whether virtual or in real life, with the user sharing information, their membership of a group either within or external to the service, their status within the subscription and/or incentive structure of the service, whether the user who may potentially receive the information about parking availability has in the past been the provider of such information, the like, and combinations thereof. The ease by which an individual user may communicate or share this information to or with other users may dictate a user's willingness to voluntarily communicate or share this information, thereby increasing the value of such a service to all users. Furthermore, the frequency, convenience, and probability of receiving such information may increase a user's willingness to “pay-it-forward” by using such a service in the future to voluntarily communicate and share information to and with other users. Finally, a variety of incentives may exist to encourage users to furnish this information to other users, thus may dramatically increase a user's likelihood to engage in a pattern of behavior of seeking, finding, and notifying a service of available parking or properties available for purchase for others.
Broadly described, one aspect of such a system and method may include a plurality of computing devices connected to a network, such as the internet. These devices may include servers, personal computing devices such as laptops and desktops, mobile computing devices such as smartphones and tablets, personal navigation or GPS units, the like and combinations thereof. These devices each may serve a variety of functions within the disclosed system and method. For instance, a server may store and communicate information about the various points of interest as well as store information about and/or provided by the system's and method's users, maintaining an active database of the same. One or more servers may also host an application or service which may process information and be capable of connecting to a network to broadcast information to users connected to the network via a cloud service. User devices such as mobile devices may store a mobile application and/or be capable of connecting and interacting with the one or more servers via the network. These mobile devices may also feature a GPS capability and a camera allowing for the sharing of information about where a point of interest may be located, where the user may be located, and what the surroundings may look like with other users of the disclosed system and method.
By deploying and enlisting such a combination of computing devices within the above plurality of computing devices, a community of individuals may practice the disclosed system and method to achieve results such as being notified that a point of interest may be available at or near their current location. This may be achieved through a variety of means such as push notifications to a user mobile device from an application server over a network. A user with a mobile device capable of navigating through map and/or turn-by-turn guidance applications may only wish to be notified of a point of interest when they are at or approaching their designated destination. In such a case, the disclosed system and method may be adapted to allow integration into such a mobile application or be interfaced in such a way to only allow notification about a point of interest (e.g., a parking spot) when the user has reached a pre-determined perimeter from his or her destination.
One benefit of the disclosed system and method may be alerting drivers at, near, approaching, travelling to, or on a drive to an intended destination of the availability of parking at or near said destination or target area. Additionally, a benefit may be alerting drivers at, near, approaching, travelling to, or on a drive to an intended destination the location of nearby properties available or listed for purchase/sale. As discussed above, many navigation applications on mobile devices provide indicators of where parking might be found by indicating parking areas, usually with a universal sign understood to stand for parking, the letter “P” within a circle. However, these applications fail to notify their users with additional, if any, information about the parking spot availability or other information about parking spots within the parking areas. In a potentially preferred embodiment of the disclosed system and method, users of a mobile application having a connection to other devices using the disclosed system and method will be notified through a variety of means covered in greater detail below of parking spots within parking areas at or near their entered destination prior to their arrival. Similarly, many real estate shopping apps may provide a map having listings to various properties available for purchase, but they neither allow a user to engage with navigational interactive features nor do they offer users the ability to list properties without having first been credentialed, usually via a professional organization for real estate professionals. Additionally, users may, in another potentially preferred embodiment, be offered the ability to reserve such a spot from other users who may be occupying currently the spot, but may no longer need it upon the requesting user's arrival at the destination spot.
Another benefit of the disclosed system and method may be allowing both driving and non-driving users of the disclosed system and method to communicate about parking and other points of interest. Currently, few, if any, mobile applications for driving and parking would be suitable for members of the non-driving public. This may be due to mobile applications lacking features and incentives sufficient for non-drivers to either pay, subscribe to, or even download such an application. Some applications may even limit capabilities of the application to driving, for instance, by only providing driving directions and lacking pedestrian or mass transit turn-by-turn directions. By providing incentives and features for non-driving users, an application of the disclosed system and method may entice such non-driving users, as well as those not in the market for a new home, to use the application to alert driving users to parking availability. By way of example and not limitation, these capabilities and incentives may include but are not limited to providing pedestrian and mass transit navigation features, instituting a social point system to receive virtual rewards such as badges, stickers, and the like, integrating with customer loyalty programs to offer discounts to patrons of stores when they alert drivers to parking near said stores, offering an easy-to-use “spot-a-spot” feature where someone simply walking by a desirable spot may easily click, snap a photo and pin a spot on a map, the like and/or combinations thereof.
A related benefit of the disclosed system and method may be gathering a greater amount of data about real-time information with respect to available parking and homes for sale than may otherwise be practical or possible without the system and method's disclosure. Various systems and methods as described herein may influence, incentivize, or otherwise cause users to share information about real-time parking information when they would not have without the aid and assistance of systems and methods of the disclosure. Due to the ever-evolving nature of the availability of parking and the real estate market, having a large volume of data about real-time parking information and receiving said information on a continuous basis is critical to maintaining its real-time benefits. Features of select embodiments of the disclosed system and method which may greater incentivize the voluntary sharing of real-time parking information by a plurality of users of the disclosed system and method, thereby achieving a greater accuracy to said users regarding parking availability in a specified area.
In select embodiments of the disclosed system and method, the end user interface of an implementation of the disclosed system and method may be integrated into existing systems and devices for vehicle navigation in combination with merchant loyalty, paid subscription or social incentive systems. A driver, or even a non-driver, may be incentivized to share relevant parking information or information about a real estate listing through a variety of means. These incentives may operate by awarding discounts, points toward vouchers, social credit points, discounts or points toward a paid subscription level of an application or service of the disclosed system and method, the like, and/or combinations thereof. So, for example, even a non-driving user who may otherwise be a pedestrian with no need to find parking locations or a person who is not in the market to purchase a property, by using an application and/or service may receive a discount, which may be for a participating merchant having a high-demand parking area for its patrons, for alerting those with this need through an application or service of the disclosed system and method. Those skilled in the art may recognize an unresolved need for merchants to be able to share with its patrons the availability of parking near their store, and their willingness to provide loyalty incentives to other patrons for sharing such information voluntarily. Those having ordinary skill in the art may also recognize an unresolved need for listing agents and home sellers to more broadly market properties for sale for users which may not immediately in the market to purchase a property. Similarly, by using interfaces and integrations discussed below, patrons may automatically receive these types of incentives through systems and methods of the disclosure which seek to limit the amount of human involvement needed to collect this data.
In an optional embodiment of the disclosed system and method, a user of the disclosed system and method may integrate into a variety of credentialed user networks including but not limited to social networks, customer loyalty and rewards programs, payment processing and credit card customer networks, university and education enrollment management systems, private or secret club membership programs, employee networks, transportation program networks such as rail and bus systems, volunteer membership networks, political party registration, fraternal organizations, professional organizations for real estate agents, the like and/or combinations thereof. In such an embodiment, a user alerting a system and method for facilitating real-time sharing of location of available parking may be prompted or otherwise allowed to choose among a variety of organizations or networks which they possess credentials for and may be integrated into their installed version of the disclosed application of the system and method. For instance, a customer arriving at a popular destination to shop at their favorite store may be notified by another customer leaving the same store if both share membership in the store's customer loyalty program via a notification through the disclosed system and method. This may be accomplished by a user prompt, automatic triage based on a user or automatic priority or preference indication, or through any other means by which a user or a system may prioritize who among a larger group may first receive a notification about a parking space vacancy or a home listed for sale nearby.
In select applications of the disclosed system and method, the user devices within the system may connect, through a variety of means, with other devices to give indication as to whether the user is walking, driving, has parked, is exiting a parking space, or making some other action to the device of, the application on a device of, or other devices, applications and systems within the disclosed system and method. For instance, a user entering and engaging their vehicle may have thereon their user device applications and/or systems to automatically connect to their vehicle's onboard handsfree phone, wireless music, or other system for integrating device features into onboard vehicle systems. During such an event, an application of the disclosed system and method installed on said user's device may take an action based on such an event. A chain of events may then take place under the assumption that the user is no longer parked and will begin exiting his or her parking spot, thereby making it available to other users. In a situation where a user may be actively shopping for a home, the systems and methods of the disclosure herein may similarly interoperate with onboard vehicle systems and a user device to enable or activate onboard vehicle turn-by-turn directions, engage Bluetooth connectivity, interact with smarthome features of a listed property, the like and/or combinations thereof. In combinations with systems and devices within the user device, such as geolocation sensors, accelerometers, compasses, etc., applications, devices, and systems of the disclosed system and method may further verify the behavior of the driver so as to prevent erroneous information from entering its available point of interest database. Once it is confirmed, or during the confirmation process, other users of the disclosed system and method may receive notifications as according to the description provided herein.
These and other features of the system and method for facilitating real-time sharing of location of available parking will become more apparent to one skilled in the art from the prior Summary, and following Brief Description of the Drawings, Detailed Description, and Claims when read in light of the accompanying Detailed Drawings.
The present apparatuses, systems and methods will be better understood by reading the Detailed Description with reference to the accompanying drawings, which are not necessarily drawn to scale, and in which like reference numerals denote similar structure and refer to like elements throughout, and in which:
It is to be noted that the drawings presented are intended solely for the purpose of illustration and that they are, therefore, neither desired nor intended to limit the disclosure to any or all of the exact details of construction shown, except insofar as they may be deemed essential to the claimed disclosure.
In describing the exemplary embodiments of the present disclosure, as illustrated in
In order to understand the present disclosure certain variables need to be defined.
As will be appreciated by one of skill in the art, the present disclosure may be embodied as a method, data processing system, or computer program product. Accordingly, the present disclosure may take the form of an entirely hardware embodiment, entirely software embodiment or an embodiment combining software and hardware aspects. Furthermore, the present disclosure may take the form of a computer program product on a computer-readable storage medium having computer-readable program code means embodied in the medium. Any suitable computer readable medium may be utilized, including hard disks, ROM, RAM, CD-ROMs, electrical, optical, magnetic storage devices and the like.
The present disclosure is described below with reference to flowchart illustrations of methods, apparatus (systems) and computer program products according to embodiments of the present disclosure. It will be understood that each block or step of the flowchart illustrations, and combinations of blocks or steps in the flowchart illustrations, can be implemented by computer program instructions or operations. These computer program instructions or operations may be loaded onto a general purpose computer, special purpose computer, or other programmable data processing apparatus to produce a machine, such that the instructions or operations, which execute on the computer or other programmable data processing apparatus, create means for implementing the functions specified in the flowchart block or blocks/step or steps.
These computer program instructions or operations may also be stored in a computer-usable memory that can direct a computer or other programmable data processing apparatus to function in a particular manner, such that the instructions or operations stored in the computer-usable memory produce an article of manufacture including instruction means which implement the function specified in the flowchart block or blocks/step or steps. The computer program instructions or operations may also be loaded onto a computer or other programmable data processing apparatus (processor) to cause a series of operational steps to be performed on the computer or other programmable apparatus (processor) to produce a computer implemented process such that the instructions or operations which execute on the computer or other programmable apparatus (processor) provide steps for implementing the functions specified in the flowchart block or blocks/step or steps.
Accordingly, blocks or steps of the flowchart illustrations support combinations of means for performing the specified functions, combinations of steps for performing the specified functions, and program instruction means for performing the specified functions. It should also be understood that each block or step of the flowchart illustrations, and combinations of blocks or steps in the flowchart illustrations, can be implemented by special purpose hardware-based computer systems, which perform the specified functions or steps, or combinations of special purpose hardware and computer instructions or operations.
Computer programming for implementing the present disclosure may be written in various programming languages, database languages, and the like. However, it is understood that other source or object-oriented programming languages, and other conventional programming language may be utilized without departing from the spirit and intent of the present disclosure.
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Many other devices or subsystems or other I/O devices 212 may be connected in a similar manner, including but not limited to, devices such as a geolocation/GPS sensor, microphone, speakers, camera, flash drive, CD-ROM player, DVD player, printer, main storage device 214, such as hard drive, and/or modem each connected via an I/O adapter. Also, although preferred, it is not necessary for all of the devices shown in
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Similar to user system 220, server system 260 preferably includes a computer-readable medium, such as random-access memory, coupled to a processor. The processor executes program instructions stored in memory. Server system 260 may also include a number of additional external or internal devices, such as, without limitation, a mouse, a CD-ROM, a keyboard, a display, a storage device and other attributes similar to computer system 10 of
Communication system 201 is capable of delivering and exchanging data between user system 220 and a server system 260 through communications link 240 and/or network 250. Through user system 220, users can preferably communicate over network 250 with each other user system 220, 222, 224, and with other systems and devices, such as server system 260, to electronically transmit, store, print and/or view multidimensional digital master image(s) 303 (see
It is contemplated herein that RAM 104, main storage device 214, and database 270 may be referred to herein as storage device(s) or memory device(s).
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In select embodiments, various device features may be integrated to avoid the need for a user to manually enter or select information. These may include, by way of example and not limitation, integration with systems and devices which may connect to a user device having installed thereon an application of the disclosed system and method. For instance, user devices within the system may connect, through a variety of means, with other devices to give indication as to whether the user is walking, driving, has parked, is exiting a parking space, or making some other action to the device of, the application on a device of, or other devices, applications and systems within the disclosed system and method. A user entering and engaging their vehicle may have thereon their user device applications and/or systems to automatically connect or pair to their vehicle's onboard handsfree phone, wireless music, or other system for integrating device features into onboard vehicle systems. During such an event, an application of the disclosed system and method installed on said user's device may take an action based on such an event, such as indicating to devices on the network of the disclosed system and method that a space previously marked as occupied at step 638 or at step 627 may change to an indication that the spot is no longer occupied at step 636 or step 514. A chain of events may then take place under the assumption that the user is no longer parked and will begin exiting his or her parking spot, thereby making it available to other users. During the loss of connection from such a paired set of devices, the opposite may occur under the assumption that the user has parked and exited his or her vehicle. In combinations with systems and devices within the user device, such as geolocation sensors, accelerometers, compasses, etc., applications, devices, and systems of the disclosed system and method may further verify the behavior of the driver so as to prevent erroneous information from entering its available spot database. Once it is confirmed, or during the confirmation process, other users of the disclosed system and method may receive notifications as according to the description provided above. Similarly, a home listing may require various features, physical or otherwise, to be shared via the disclosed system and method in order for users of the disclosed system and method to be notified both of the home's location and those features.
In other select embodiments, a user's membership in or belonging to a variety of credentialed user networks including but not limited to social networks, customer loyalty and rewards programs, payment processing and credit card customer networks, university and education enrollment management systems, private or secret club membership programs, employee networks, transportation program networks such as rail and bus systems, volunteer membership networks, political party registration, fraternal organizations, the like and/or combinations thereof may be important to the disclosed system and method. Rewarding members for being in such a group may encourage loyalty to the disclosed system and method in conjunction with the group through the private sharing of parking information privately among the user group over another way to communicate about parking, thereby increasing the amount of information contained within, and thereby the value and utility of, the disclosed system and method. It is contemplated that this may be especially important in target areas for parking where many users may desire parking or for parking target areas experiencing significant uptick in parking demand, and the ability for users to prefer with whom they share this valuable data may be an important feature for users. Furthering this utility may be the provision of loyalty vouchers, discount vouchers, loyalty rewards points, the like and/or combinations thereof in exchange for the user provision of information about parking at or near a physical store. In such an embodiment, a user alerting a system and method for facilitating real-time sharing of location of available parking may be prompted or otherwise allowed to choose among a variety of organizations or networks which they possess credentials for before, during, or after step 501, when a user installs an application of the disclosed system and method. These memberships and/or groups may be integrated through means known by those skilled in the art and may be integrated into their installed version of the disclosed application of the system and method. Then, for instance, a customer that has designated at step 611 that they will be driving to a popular destination to shop at their favorite store. At step 622 and step 623, via an application of the disclosed system and method, another customer leaving the same store if both share membership in the store's customer loyalty program may be notified via a notification on said application on a user device. This may be accomplished by a user prompt for prompting a user at step 623, automatic triage based on a user or automatic priority or preference indication, or through any other means by which a user or a system may prioritize who among a larger group may first receive a notification about a parking space vacancy.
The foregoing description and drawings comprise illustrative embodiments. Having thus described exemplary embodiments, it should be noted by those skilled in the art that the within disclosures are exemplary only, and that various other alternatives, adaptations, and modifications may be made within the scope of the present disclosure. Merely listing or numbering the steps of a method in a certain order does not constitute any limitation on the order of the steps of that method. Many modifications and other embodiments will come to mind to one skilled in the art to which this disclosure pertains having the benefit of the teachings presented in the foregoing descriptions and the associated drawings. Although specific terms may be employed herein, they are used in a generic and descriptive sense only and not for purposes of limitation. Accordingly, the present disclosure is not limited to the specific embodiments illustrated herein, but is limited only by the following claims.
