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METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR UNIVERSAL AND UNIFIED LOCATION REPRESENTATION AND ITS INTERACTION WITH GPS DEVICES

  • US 20090234570A1
  • Filed: 03/13/2009
  • Published: 09/17/2009
  • Est. Priority Date: 03/13/2008
  • Status: Abandoned Application
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1. A method for creating a canonical representation for a physical location, the canonical representation operating as a uniform identifier for a variety of descriptive location forms, the method comprising the steps of:

  • receiving location descriptive information for a particular location from an input device;

    parsing the location descriptive information by a processing unit to identify address characteristics;

    normalizing the location descriptive information by a processing unit mapping the identified characteristics to common synonyms; and

    converting the normalized location descriptive information by a processing unit into the canonical representation.

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