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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 26, 2002
Filed:
Sep. 25, 2001
Applicant:
Inventors:
Timothy McGrath, Chicago, IL (US);
John Jasper, Arlington Heights, IL (US);
James Herbst, Mountain View, CA (US);
Assignee:
Navigation Technologies Corporation, Chicago, IL (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 1/740 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 1/740 ;
Abstract
A system and method of providing incremental updates for a geographical data set for use in navigation systems. The system and method include organizing updates of geographical data set into a series of transactions. Each of the transactions includes a transaction identifier that uniquely identifies the transaction, and n steps to be applied to the geographical data set to complete the transaction. All the steps of the transaction are required to be successfully applied in order for the transaction to be completed, otherwise, the entire transaction is not applied.