Method, system, and program for an improved enterprise spatial system

Patent 7107285 Issued on September 12, 2006. Estimated Expiration Date:

March 14, 2023. Estimated Expiration Date is calculated based on simple USPTO term provisions. It does not account for terminal disclaimers, term adjustments, failure to pay maintenance fees, or other factors which might affect the term of a patent.

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Inventors

Assignee

Questerra Corporation

Application

No. 10388666 filed on 03/14/2003

US Classes:

707/104.1, Application of database or data structure (e.g., distributed, multimedia, image)707/3, Query processing (i.e., searching)342/357.13, With storage device (i.e., map or database)707/10, Distributed or remote access707/9, Privileged access704/9, Natural language707/103RObject-oriented database structure

Examiners

Primary: Gaffin, Jeffrey
Assistant: Wu, Yicun

Attorney, Agent or Firm

Foreign Patent References

0860787 EP 08/01/1998
WO 9921108 WO 04/01/1999
WO 0196906 WO 12/01/2001

International Class

G06F 17/30

Abstract

Disclosed is a method, system, and program for providing access to spatial data. A request for data is received. Enterprise and third party data are integrated. The integrated data is processed. Spatially referenced results are generated using the processed data. The spatially referenced results are returned in response to the request.

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