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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.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 06, 2003
Filed:
May. 19, 2000
Applicant:
Inventor:
George T. Angwin, Montara, CA (US);
Assignee:
Tele Atlas North America, Inc., Menlo Park, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 3/14 ; G06F 1/900 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 3/14 ; G06F 1/900 ;
Abstract
A method and apparatus for computing sign text for exit ramps from limited access highways of an electronic map network. First and second name lists containing names of road elements ahead of and behind respective simple and compound exit ramps are generated. Sign text for simple exit ramps is computed using a first process having the first and second name lists as inputs. Sign text for compound exit ramps is computed using a second process having the first and second name lists as inputs.