Method and system for multi-dimensional and geographic search
First Claim
1. A multi-dimensional and geographic-search system comprising:
- a search-region-receiving component that receives a number i of sets of coordinates that define a region to be searched, the number i greater than 1 and each of the i sets of coordinates including d coordinates associated with a multidimensional space, each of the d coordinates represented by an ordered sequence of n bits;
an indexing component that generates, by a bit-permutation mapping, i integer indexes that include an integer index for each of the i sets of the received coordinates, the bit-permutation mapping grouping, for each of the n bits used to represent each of the d coordinates of a set of coordinates, the bits of the d coordinates at each bit position within the ordered-bit-sequence representations of the d coordinates together into a subsequence of bits within an ordered sequence of subsequences of bits that together compose the integer index;
a recursive-decomposition component that decomposes the region into sub-regions based on the integer indices generated by the indexing component; and
a search component that selects points of interest from a points-of-interest database by comparing integer indices computed for the regular sub-regions to indices computed and stored in the database for each point of interest.
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Abstract
One embodiment of the present invention is directed to a multi-dimensional and geographic-search system that includes a search-region-receiving component that receives coordinates that define a region to be searched, an indexing component that generates an index for each of the received coordinates, a recursive-decomposition component that decomposes the region into sub-regions based on the indices generated by the indexing component, and a search component that selects points of interest from a points-of-interest database by comparing indices computed for the sub-regions to indices computed and stored in the database for each point of interest. Additional embodiments are directed to carrying out efficient, index-based searching for various additional types index-characterized entities.
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15 Claims
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1. A multi-dimensional and geographic-search system comprising:
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a search-region-receiving component that receives a number i of sets of coordinates that define a region to be searched, the number i greater than 1 and each of the i sets of coordinates including d coordinates associated with a multidimensional space, each of the d coordinates represented by an ordered sequence of n bits; an indexing component that generates, by a bit-permutation mapping, i integer indexes that include an integer index for each of the i sets of the received coordinates, the bit-permutation mapping grouping, for each of the n bits used to represent each of the d coordinates of a set of coordinates, the bits of the d coordinates at each bit position within the ordered-bit-sequence representations of the d coordinates together into a subsequence of bits within an ordered sequence of subsequences of bits that together compose the integer index; a recursive-decomposition component that decomposes the region into sub-regions based on the integer indices generated by the indexing component; and a search component that selects points of interest from a points-of-interest database by comparing integer indices computed for the regular sub-regions to indices computed and stored in the database for each point of interest. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8)
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9. A mapping system comprising:
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a tile-specifying component that receives a number i of sets of coordinates that define region, the number i greater than 1 and each of the i sets of coordinates including d coordinates associated with a multidimensional space, each of the d coordinates represented by an ordered sequence of n bits; an indexing component that generates, by a bit-permutation mapping, i integer indexes that include an integer index for each i sets of the coordinate that defines the region, the bit-permutation mapping grouping, for each of the n bits used to represent each of the d coordinates of a set of coordinates, the bits of the d coordinates at each bit position within the ordered-bit-sequence representations of the d coordinates together into a subsequence of bits within an ordered sequence of subsequences of bits that together compose the integer index; a recursive-decomposition component that decomposes the region into regular sub-regions based on the integer indices generated by the indexing component; and a tile-retrieving component that retrieves tiles corresponding to the regular sub-regions computed by the recursive-decomposition component. - View Dependent Claims (10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15)
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