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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:
Jan. 21, 2025

Filed:

Nov. 07, 2023
Applicant:

Google Llc, Mountain View, CA (US);

Inventors:

Steve Chien, San Carlos, CA (US);

Mark Yinan Li, San Francisco, CA (US);

Marc Schaub, Palo Alto, CA (US);

Benjamin Anderson, Seattle, WA (US);

James Aspinall, San Francisco, CA (US);

Zhou Bailiang, Seattle, WA (US);

Ruwen Hess, Yarrow Point, WA (US);

Assignee:

Google LLC, Mountain View, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 16/29 (2019.01); G01C 21/34 (2006.01); G01C 21/36 (2006.01); G06F 16/901 (2019.01); H04W 4/21 (2018.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G01C 21/3476 (2013.01); G01C 21/3682 (2013.01); G06F 16/29 (2019.01); G06F 16/9024 (2019.01); H04W 4/21 (2018.02);
Abstract

Presented are techniques of identifying, processing and displaying data point clusters associated with map information in an efficient manner Methods and systems are disclosed which process map information to identify clusters of requested data points for display, based on iterative clustering and filtering of the data points. Methods and systems are also disclosed which generate polygons representing the clusters. The amount of data to be processed and/or displayed can be reduced, without loss of any associated information content in a displayed map.


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