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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 03, 2003
Filed:
Feb. 10, 2000
Vikram Ramesh Jamalabad, Somerville, NJ (US);
Anna Loskiewicz-Buczak, Berkeley Heights, NJ (US);
Richard Allen Burne, Ellicott City, MD (US);
Honeywell International Inc., Morristown, NJ (US);
Abstract
Limited range physical entities located in a topological space are dynamically grouped by partitioning the space into grids for different functional domains, a group being associated with each grid that corresponds to a unique functional domain and a unique topological space. A range of effectiveness for each entity is determined and compared with other groups. Each entity is then assigned to be a member of a particular group. The assigning step may comprise calculating a membership value for each entity, the membership value being equal to the ratio of the intersecting space to total space within a group.