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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Jul. 28, 2020

Filed:

May. 13, 2016
Applicant:

Xerox Corporation, Norwalk, CT (US);

Inventors:

Xuejin Wen, Fairport, NY (US);

Lina Fu, Fairport, NY (US);

Jing Zhou, Pittsford, NY (US);

Faming Li, Solon, OH (US);

Jinhui Yao, Pittsford, NY (US);

Michael David Shepherd, Ontario, NY (US);

Dennis F. Quebe, Jr., Austin, TX (US);

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G16H 40/20 (2018.01); G06F 16/29 (2019.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G16H 40/20 (2018.01); G06F 16/29 (2019.01);
Abstract

A method and a non-transitory computer readable medium for generating polygons within a geographic region that satisfy a query are disclosed. For example, the method extracts a plurality of nodes, a plurality of service providers and information associated with the plurality of nodes and the plurality of service providers of the geographic region from a geographic data source, creates a node table based on the information that was extracted, receives the query for one or more nodes having a predefined number of service providers within a travel budget, determines the one or more nodes from the node table that satisfy the query, and generates one or more generate polygons around the one or more nodes that satisfy the query within the geographic region.


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