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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 03, 2017
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
A method may include storing a plurality of floor maps, each floor map indicating a structural layout of a respective physical location, storing a plurality of point-of-interest (POI) data structures, each POI data structure including a physical location of an associated POI that is associated with the respective POI data structure, receiving a floor map request, the floor map request including a requested location, based upon the location included by the floor map request, selecting a floor map and a subset of the plurality of POI data structures, for each of the subset of the plurality of POI data structures, receiving metadata from the associated POI, the metadata indicating a status of the associated POI, and transmitting, to the client computing device and in response to the floor map request, the selected floor map and the selected POI data structures.