Creating and monitoring alerts for a geographical area
US8310361B1 · kind B1 · utility
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Key dates
| Filing date | Jun 13, 2011 |
| Grant date | Nov 13, 2012 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Jun 13, 2031 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC G)Physics
- CPC primaryG08B21/10
- WIPO fieldControl
- WIPO sectorInstruments
Abstract
A geographical alert system creates an alert for a user-defined geographical area, detects a change to a feature stored in a map-related database, identifies whether the changed feature falls within the user-defined geographical area, and sends a notification to a user when the changed feature of the map-related database falls within the user-defined geographical area. To set up a geographical alert, an alert editor retrieves map data from a map-related database via an alert engine and displays the map data in a visual display to a user. The user then selects a geographical area that the system will automatically monitor for changes. The user may also specify a feature type, and an alert notification type for the alert. The alert engine then processes the user-specified geographical area into geographical area data and stores an alert and its corresponding geographical area data, feature type, and alert notification type in an alert database. When a change in the map-related database is detected, the alert engine obtains the geographic coordinate point data associated with the change and determines whether the geographical coordinate point data associated with the change falls with…
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