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| United States Patent | 6,826,598 |
| Titmuss , et al. | November 30, 2004 |
A method of storing and/or retrieving location-based information comprises: storing, in a distributed network of data storage devices accessible simultaneously from a plurality of remote user terminals, data defining a plurality of first localities in relation to which information storage is accessible, and selecting ones of the first localities to represent second localities for which information is to be stored and/or retrieved such that i) the first and second localities bear a predetermined locational relationship, and ii) the first and second localities bear a predetermined relationship in size.
| Inventors: | Titmuss; Richard John (Ipswich, GB), Brookland; Alan Richard (Ipswich, GB), Plasse; Delphine (Ipswich, GB), Moore; Robert Peter (Suffolk, GB) |
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| Assignee: |
British Telecommunications public limited company
(London,
GB)
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| Family ID: | 33454366 |
| Appl. No.: | 09/647,884 |
| Filed: | October 6, 2000 |
| PCT Filed: | May 05, 1999 |
| PCT No.: | PCT/GB99/01394 |
| 371(c)(1),(2),(4) Date: | October 06, 2000 |
| PCT Pub. No.: | WO99/57700 |
| PCT Pub. Date: | November 11, 1999 |
| May 5, 1998 [EP] | 98303520 | |||
| May 5, 1998 [GB] | 98009600 | |||
| Current U.S. Class: | 709/212; 709/216; 709/217; 709/218; 709/219 |
| Current CPC Class: | G08G 1/0962 (20130101) |
| Current International Class: | G08G 1/0962 (20060101); G06F 015/167 () |
| Field of Search: | ;709/203,212,216,217,218 |
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