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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 29, 2012
Filed:
Apr. 25, 2007
Applicant:
Olivier Bailly, Oakland, CA (US);
Inventor:
Olivier Bailly, Oakland, CA (US);
Assignee:
Google Inc., Mountain View, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 17/30 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A method of updating information stored in an index associated with spatially-related objects. The method includes accessing a hierarchical multi-level index having leaf nodes containing information about an object and non-leaf nodes storing information about a number of nodes related to the non-leaf nodes, adding a representation of the object at a leaf node in the index, and traversing parents of the leaf node toward a root node, and incrementing counts of each node in the traversal path.