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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 16, 2016
Filed:
Aug. 22, 2014
Bmc Software, Inc., Houston, TX (US);
Troy Cline, Leander, TX (US);
Ting He, Austin, TX (US);
Wesley Gere, Austin, TX (US);
Jason L. Graham, Austin, TX (US);
Kia Behnia, Burlingame, CA (US);
BMC Software Inc., Houston, TX (US);
Abstract
According to one general aspect, a method may include receiving a floor map indicating a structural layout of a physical location, receiving a point-of-interest (POI) data structure representing a POI and POI metadata associated with the POI, POI data structure including a location of an associated POI that is associated with the POI, and the POI metadata including a POI type indicating a type of the associated POI, and a POI status indicating the status of the associated POI, annotating the floor map by overlaying on the selected floor map an indicator for each selected POI data structure such that the indicator is placed on the floor map at a location representing the physical location of the respective associated POI and indicates the type of the associated POI and the status of the associated POI, displaying a portion of the annotated floor map, and initiating a POI action.