Shared geo-located objects

• US 9,031,964 B2
• Filed: 04/25/2007
• Issued: 05/12/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 04/25/2006
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Google LLC (Alphabet Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Google Inc. (Alphabet Inc.)
• Inventors: Bailly, Olivier, Bailly, Francois, Smith, Adam, Limber, Mark, Springer, Michael W.
• Primary Examiner(s): Perveen, Rehana
• Assistant Examiner(s): Hoffler, Raheem
• Application Number:
  US11/740,222
• Publication Number:
  US 20070249368A1
• Time in Patent Office: 2,939 Days
• Field of Search: None
• US Class Current: 707/758
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/29 Geographical information databases
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/832 Query formulation
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/838 Presentation of query results
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/951 Indexing; Web crawling techniques
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/9537 Spatial or temporal dependent retrieval, e.g. spatiotemporal queries
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 30/13 Architectural design, e.g. computer-aided architectural design [CAAD] related to design of buildings, bridges, landscapes, production plants or roads
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0261 based on user location

Abstract

A method of reviewing geo-coded information at a geographic information system. The method may include receiving information identifying a geo-located object from a submitter of the object, receiving information identifying the location of the geo-located object from the submitter, and receiving a request from a user of the geographic information system for one or more geo-located objects that includes the submitted geo-located object, and transmitting information for permitting display of the geo-located object to the user of the geographic information system.

Claims

1. A method performed by a server comprising one or more computing devices, comprising:

receiving, at the server through an Internet-accessible interface, information identifying a three-dimensional model from a submitter;

receiving, at the server, information identifying a geographical location of the three-dimensional model from the submitter, the geographical location geo-locating the three-dimensional model on a geography;

storing, using the server, the geo-located three-dimensional model in a model database with a plurality of other geo-located models; and

forming, using the server, an association between image information representing the geographical location and the geo-located three-dimensional model, wherein the association locates the geo-located three-dimensional model in context within and overlaid on a representation of the geographical location.

2. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

receiving, at the server, a request submitted by a client device, the request including information identifying the geographical location; and

causing, using the server, image information representing the geographical location in association with the geo-located three-dimensional model to be delivered to the client device that submitted the request.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the information identifying the three-dimensional model comprises information defining the three-dimensional model in association with the geographical location and is transmitted in an XML format.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the information identifying the geographical location of the three-dimensional model includes a placemark that identifies the location of the information defining the three-dimensional model and a link directed to the information defining the three-dimensional model, wherein selection of the link causes the three-dimensional model to be downloaded to a requesting client device.

5. The method of claim 4, further comprising storing and transmitting an image of the three-dimensional model using the server, wherein the image is formatted so that selection of the image by a user causes the three-dimensional model to be displayed on the requesting client device.

6. The method of claim 1, further comprising associating, using the server, advertising with the geo-located three-dimensional model for display on the three-dimensional geo-located model.