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Implementing geographical taxonomy within network-accessible service registries using spatial extensions

  • US 6,976,027 B2
  • Filed: 08/21/2002
  • Issued: 12/13/2005
  • Est. Priority Date: 08/21/2002
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A method of improving categorization in network-accessible service registries, comprising steps of:

  • specifying, in an entry that represents a network-accessible service in a network accessible service registry, an identifier of a geographical taxonomy specification; and

    specifying a classification value in the entry, wherein the classification value categorizes the network-accessible service in context of the specified geographical taxonomy specification,wherein the specified geographical taxonomy identifier and classification value point to a row in a spatially-enable database by applying a hash function, wherein the pointed-to-row comprises geospatial data related to the network-accessible service represented by the entry;

    wherein the network-accessible registry is a Universal Description, Discovery, and Integration registry.

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