Storage and retrieval of location based information in a distributed network of data storage devices
US6826598B1 · kind B1 · utility
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| Filing date | Oct 6, 2000 |
| Grant date | Nov 30, 2004 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Oct 6, 2020 |
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- Technology area (CPC G)Physics
- CPC primaryG08G1/0962
- WIPO fieldControl
- WIPO sectorInstruments
Abstract
A method of storing and/or retrieving location-based information comprises: storing, in a distributed network of data storage devices accessible simultaneously from a plurality of remote user terminals, data defining a plurality of first localities in relation to which information storage is accessible, and selecting ones of the first localities to represent second localities for which information is to be stored and/or retrieved such that i) the first and second localities bear a predetermined locational relationship, and ii) the first and second localities bear a predetermined relationship in size.
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