Method and apparatus for a transportable environmental database for communications network management and engineering
First Claim
1. A method for manipulating data from any environment in the world to construct a database that can be used to generate definitions of the user'"'"'s physical environment including buildings, terrain and other site parameters, comprising the steps of:
- (a) creating and formatting a plurality of objects defining an environment of floors, walls, partitions, buildings, building complexes or compounds, terrain, foliage or other sites or obstructions;
(b) verifying the sufficiency of said plurality of objects to ensure a useful definition of said environment and notifying a user of results of said verification of sufficiency; and
(c) generating a set of formatted data in a form transportable to and usable by an engineering planning model or other application.
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Abstract
A Building Database Manipulator to build databases for a variety of physical environments including definitions of buildings, terrain and other site parameters, by scanning in or rapidly editing data. Raster scans may be entered or object files in various formats may be used as input. Detailed information is stored in the drawing database about the object'"'"'s location, radio frequency attenuation, color, and other physical information such as electrical characteristics and intersections of the object with the ground, floors, ceilings, and other objects when objects are formatted in a drawing. The formatting process is strictly two-dimensional in nature, but the resulting drawing is a true three-dimensional environment. The user sees the three-dimensional building structure by altering the views. The resulting database may be used in a variety of modeling applications, but is especially useful for engineering, planning and management tools for in-building or microcell wireless systems.
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12 Claims
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1. A method for manipulating data from any environment in the world to construct a database that can be used to generate definitions of the user'"'"'s physical environment including buildings, terrain and other site parameters, comprising the steps of:
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(a) creating and formatting a plurality of objects defining an environment of floors, walls, partitions, buildings, building complexes or compounds, terrain, foliage or other sites or obstructions;
(b) verifying the sufficiency of said plurality of objects to ensure a useful definition of said environment and notifying a user of results of said verification of sufficiency; and
(c) generating a set of formatted data in a form transportable to and usable by an engineering planning model or other application. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9)
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10. An apparatus for manipulating data from any environment in the world to construct a database that can be used to generate definitions of the user'"'"'s physical environment including buildings, terrain and other site parameters, comprising:
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means for creating and formatting a plurality of objects defining an environment of floors, walls, partitions, buildings, building complexes or compounds, terrain, foliage or other sites or obstructions; and
means for generating a set of formatted data in a form transportable to and usable by an engineering planning model or other application. - View Dependent Claims (11, 12)
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