Bentley Systems, Inc.

Stephane Nullans

Luc Robert

Elenie Godzaridis

Jean-Philippe Pons

In an example embodiment, techniques are provided for locking a region of fully-connected large-scale multi-dimensional spatial data (e.g., a large-scale 3-D mesh) defined by a bounding box. A region is associated with a lock state (e.g., exclusive or sharable). Clients may access the fully-connected large-scale multi-dimensional spatial data based on a comparison of the bounding box of the requested spatial data to the bounding boxes of other client's locks and their lock state.

Locking of spatial regions of large-scale fully-connected multi-dimensional spatial data for collaborative updating

In an example embodiment, techniques are provided for concurrently editing fully-connected large-scale multi-dimensional spatial data (e.g., a large-scale 3-D mesh) by ensuring that edits performed by multiple clients are non-conflicting edits that are 'trivially' mergeable (e.g. mergeable simply via cut-and-paste operations). Conflicting edits may be prevented by locks (e.g., region-based locks). Non-conflicting edits that require 'non-trivial' merging may be prevented through the use of marked read-only boundaries.

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Saint Vallier de Thiey, France

Stephane Nullans