Patent application number | Description | Published |
20100088308 | System and Method for Automated Discovery, Binding, and Integration of Non-Registered Geospatial Web Services - A method and computer system for identifying internet web pages containing documents that comply with a predetermined XML schema. The method includes searching the internet with a search engine for web pages using initial search terms and identifying a first set of HTTP URLs, web crawling at least the first set of HTTP URLs to identify additional HTTP URLs, appending a query to the identified URLs, and evaluating the responses to the query to determine which responses comply with the predetermined XML schema. The XML schema can be a Web Mapping Services schema. The system can store responses that comply with the XML schema in a database of servers, periodically check the database for validity, and convert the map requests for map servers in the database to a GIDB Portal Interface API. | 04-08-2010 |
20100332192 | Method and Tools for Self-Describing Data Processing - A data set can self-describe a set of data specifications that describe the physical measurements, spatial representation, and file format of data stored in the data set. A data processing tool can self-describe a set of input specifications of the physical measurements, spatial representation, and file storage format of data that can be accepted for processing by the tool. Fully automated methods for coordinating the processing and analysis of the data set by the data processing tool are presented which ensure that the data input to a data processing tool represents the proper physical measurements, has the proper spatial representation, and is in the proper file format to permit the data processing tool to produce logically correct output. | 12-30-2010 |
20130101214 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CONVERTING SOURCE IMAGE DATA TO TILE DATA - System and method for converting source image data to tile data. | 04-25-2013 |
20130101215 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR STORING AND RETRIEVING TILED IMAGE DATA - System and method for storing and retrieving tiled image data. | 04-25-2013 |
20130101235 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DETERMINING TILE SIZE FOR A MAP VIEW - System and method for determining the tile size for a particular virtualized map view. | 04-25-2013 |
20130103648 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR STORING A DATASET OF IMAGE TILES - System and method for storing a dataset of image tiles. | 04-25-2013 |
20140093186 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CONVERTING SOURCE IMAGE DATA TO TILE DATA - System and method for converting source image data to tile data including (a) selecting a source image set; (b) computing a scaling value for the source image set; (c) establishing tile set geographic bounds of a tile set that is created based on the scaling value; (d) converting the tile set geographic bounds to discrete tile bounds; (e) for each source image (i) determining source image geographic bounds; (ii) if there is an intersection between the source image geographic bounds and the tile set geographic bounds, (1) extracting image data from the source image at the intersection; (2) scaling the image data based on a pre-selected scale; (3) storing the scaled image data to a tile storage mechanism; and (f) repeating steps (a) through (e) for each of the source image sets. | 04-03-2014 |
20140101207 | System and Method for Storing a Dataset of Image Tiles - System and method for storing a dataset of image tiles. Method includes determining a number of zoom levels, accessing a cluster file that includes a subset of the zoom levels, and accessing the image tiles. For each of the image tiles, a cluster name is computed. For each of the image tiles, if the cluster file has a name that matches the computed cluster name, an image tile pointer is stored in a fixed length index, and the image tile associated with the computed cluster name is stored. For each of the image tiles, if the cluster file name does not match the computed cluster name, another subset of the zoom levels is computed, a new cluster file is created, an image tile pointer is created and stored, and the image tile is stored associated with the computed cluster name in the new cluster file according to the image tile pointer. | 04-10-2014 |
20140112587 | System and Method for Encoding Standard-Formatted Images with Information - System and method for encoding standard-formatted images with information including, but not limited to, geospatial information. This information, possibly in mark-up language format, can be quickly accessed and used to modify the image to which it is appended, or it can be ignored because the image itself remains unchanged. | 04-24-2014 |
20140280676 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR INTERACTIVE SPATIO-TEMPORAL STREAMING DATA - System and method for providing a probabilistic order of tiles relative to a current section of a video that a user is viewing. A cache implementation uses this ordering to decide what tiles to evict from the cache, i.e. which tiles will probably not be accessed within a particular timeframe, but not when to evict (this is up to the cache implementation). A cache implementation can also use the prioritized list of the present embodiment to pre-fetch tiles. | 09-18-2014 |
20140282768 | System and Method for Interactive Spatio-Temporal Streaming Data - System and method for providing a probabilistic order of tiles relative to a current section of a video that a user is viewing. A cache implementation uses this ordering to decide what tiles to evict from the cache, i.e. which tiles will probably not be accessed within a particular timeframe, but not when to evict (this is up to the cache implementation). A cache implementation can also use the prioritized list of the present embodiment to pre-fetch tiles. | 09-18-2014 |