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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 26, 2005
Filed:
Dec. 10, 1998
Applicant:
Edward Joseph Suranyi, Union City, CA (US);
Inventor:
Edward Joseph Suranyi, Union City, CA (US);
Assignee:
Tele Atlas North America, Inc., Menlo Park, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F165/00 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
An electronic map is stored as a collection of nodes and links. Roads in the map are assigned priorities for pathfinding purposes. A node's priority originally corresponds to the priority of the road associated with the node. Electronic maps can be made more useful by adding short cuts to the map. A short cut generator is disclosed that creates short cuts by building compound links and/or raising the priority of certain nodes. A compound link is a link that represents travel along multiple links of the electronic map.