Methods of geographically storing and publishing electronic content
First Claim
1. A method for providing geographically aggregated publications to a user of a website, comprising:
- providing an electronic collection of published data;
providing a user access to publish data;
allowing the user to navigate pieces of the published data;
providing controls for users to select other collections of content;
maintaining geographic data for each piece of the published data;
receiving a retrieval request wherein the request includes geographic information; and
returning a collection of individual pieces of published data having geographic data related to the requested geographic information.
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Abstract
A server system receives information from a client and publishes the information over the Internet. The information includes textual, graphical, or other digitized forms of informational data such as geographic data, a Latitude and/or Longitude, an address, a partial address, an altitude, a region, or the like. The server system stores the information from the client, processes the geographic data associated with the information, converts the geographic data to a standardized format, and associates the geographic data with the posted data as geographic metadata. The data and geographic metadata is then indexed for optimized retrieval by the client system. In response to a request from a client system, paired with global positioning or spatial data the server system returns published information aggregated and summarized based on the proximity of the stored coordinates to those passed to the server system by the requesting client system.
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20 Claims
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1. A method for providing geographically aggregated publications to a user of a website, comprising:
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providing an electronic collection of published data;
providing a user access to publish data;
allowing the user to navigate pieces of the published data;
providing controls for users to select other collections of content;
maintaining geographic data for each piece of the published data;
receiving a retrieval request wherein the request includes geographic information; and
returning a collection of individual pieces of published data having geographic data related to the requested geographic information. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10)
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11. A method for storing content with geographical metadata in a standardized fashion, comprising:
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providing pages for users to upload content to a server system;
providing controls that enable the user to input geographical information; and
maintaining the geographical information with the uploaded control by the user such that the uploaded content can be retrieved based on the geographic information. - View Dependent Claims (12, 13, 14, 15, 16)
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17. A method for organizing published data, comprising:
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submitting electronic data for publishing and storing over an electronic network, wherein the electronic data includes geographic specific information;
publishing and storing the electronic data in association with the geographic specific information;
allowing a user access to the published and stored electronic data, wherein the user includes a geographic reference; and
retrieving published and stored electronic data having geographic specific information similar to the users geographic reference. - View Dependent Claims (18, 19, 20)
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