Data processing: vehicles – navigation – and relative location – Navigation – Employing position determining equipment
Reexamination Certificate
2007-11-27
2007-11-27
To, Tuan C (Department: 3663)
Data processing: vehicles, navigation, and relative location
Navigation
Employing position determining equipment
C382S229000, C709S217000, C707S793000
Reexamination Certificate
active
10631611
ABSTRACT:
Methods are disclosed for encoding latitude/longitude coordinates within a URL in a relatively compact form. The method includes converting latitude and longitude coordinates from floating-point numbers to non-negative integers. A set of base-N string representations are generated for the integers (N represents the number of characters in an implementation-defined character set being utilized). The latitude string and longitude string are then concatenated to yield a single output string. The output string is utilized as a geographic indicator with a URL.
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To Tuan C
Westman Champlin & Kelly P.A.
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