Method and system for transforming limited source graphical data
First Claim
1. A method for transforming limited source graphical data to coherent transformed data, comprising:
- (a) identifying important elements in the limited source graphical data;
(b) identifying relationships between the identified important elements; and
(c) generating coherent transformed data representing the identified important elements and the identified relationships between elements.
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Abstract
A system, method and computer program product for transforming limited graphical source data to coherent transformed data. In one embodiment, the coherent transformed data is a hierarchical data structure. The hierarchical data structure represents elements and relationships between the elements. The present invention identifies important elements from the objects present in the limited source graphical data, identifies relationships between the identified important elements, and builds the hierarchical data structure to represent the identified important elements and identified relationships between the important elements. In one embodiment, the present invention includes a map crawler tool. The map crawler tool has a user interface and a transformation engine.
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47 Claims
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1. A method for transforming limited source graphical data to coherent transformed data, comprising:
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(a) identifying important elements in the limited source graphical data;
(b) identifying relationships between the identified important elements; and
(c) generating coherent transformed data representing the identified important elements and the identified relationships between elements. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17)
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18. A system for transforming limited source graphical data to coherent transformed data, comprising:
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(a) means for identifying important elements in the limited source graphical data;
(b) means for identifying relationships between the identified important elements; and
(c) means for generating coherent transformed data representing the identified important elements and the identified relationships between elements. - View Dependent Claims (19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27)
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28. A system, comprising:
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a plurality of map files, each map file having limited source graphical data comprised of objects that define elements of a respective portion of a cable network, each map file having been generated to enable a respective map of the corresponding cable network portion including its respective elements to be visually output for printing or display; and
a map crawler tool, said map crawler tool comprising;
a user-interface; and
a transformation engine coupled to said user-interface, wherein said user-interface receives input from a user and controls at least part of the operation of said transformation engine in response to the received input, and wherein said transformation engine transforms the limited source graphical data in the plurality of map files to a hierarchical data structure representing elements in the cable network and relationships between the elements. - View Dependent Claims (29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41, 42, 43, 44, 45, 46)
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47. A computer program product comprising computer usable media having computer readable program code means embodied in said media for causing a computer to transform limited source graphical data to coherent transformed data, said computer readable program code means comprising:
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a first computer readable program code means for enabling a computer to identify important elements in the limited source graphical data;
a second computer readable program code means for enabling a computer to identify relationships between the identified important elements; and
a third computer readable program code means for enabling a computer to generate coherent transformed data representing the identified important elements and the identified relationships between elements.
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