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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:
Aug. 15, 2006
Filed:
Aug. 21, 2002
Applicant:
Robert R. Cutlip, Cary, NC (US);
Inventor:
Robert R. Cutlip, Cary, NC (US);
Assignee:
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06T 17/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
Techniques are disclosed for mapping display space (for example, for display devices) using extensions to spatially-enabled databases. Built-in structures and functions of a spatially-enabled object relational database system can therefore be leveraged. Use of the disclosed techniques enables, for example, quickly determining whether one object to be displayed on the display of a computing device will overlap (in space and/or in time) another object to be displayed on that device.