Patents by Inventor Asta Kavakh

Asta Kavakh has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Segment aggregation and interleaving of data types in a geographic database and methods for use thereof in a navigation application
    Patent number: 6507850
    Abstract: A geographic database for use with a navigation application program that provides navigation features to an end-user. The geographic database includes a plurality of data records of a first type and a plurality of data records of a second type. The plurality of records of the first type are organized into a plurality of parcels, each of which includes a plurality of data records of the first type and the plurality of records of the second type are organized into a plurality of parcels, each of which includes a plurality of data records of the second type. The parcels of data records of the first type are interleaved with the parcels of data records of the second type. This interleaving enables navigation functions that use these different types to access these different types more quickly and efficiently, thereby enhancing navigation system performance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 1999
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2003
    Assignee: Navigation Technologies Corp.
    Inventors: Michael Livshutz, Richard A. Ashby, Paul M. Bouzide, Srinivasa Doddapaneni, Robert P. Fernekes, Matthew Friederich, Vijaya S. Israni, John C. Jasper, Asta Kavakh, William McDonough, James A. Meek, Senthil K. Natesan, Nicholas E. Smith
  • Segment aggregation and interleaving of data types in a geographic database and methods for use thereof in a navigation application
    Patent number: 6473770
    Abstract: A geographic database for use with a navigation application program that provides navigation features to an end-user. The geographic database includes a plurality of data records of a first type and a plurality of data records of a second type. The plurality of records of the first type are organized into a plurality of parcels, each of which includes a plurality of data records of the first type and the plurality of records of the second type are organized into a plurality of parcels, each of which includes a plurality of data records of the second type. The parcels of data records of the first type are interleaved with the parcels of data records of the second type. This interleaving enables navigation functions that use these different types to access these different types more quickly and efficiently, thereby enhancing navigation system performance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 23, 2001
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2002
    Assignee: Navigation Technologies Corp.
    Inventors: Michael Livshutz, Vijaya S. Israni, Richard A. Ashby, Paul M. Bouzide, Srinivasa Doddapaneni, Robert P. Fernekes, Matthew Friederich, John C. Jasper, Asta Kavakh, William McDonough, James A. Meek, Senthil K. Natesan, Nicholas E. Smith
  • Segment aggregation in a geographic database and methods for use thereof in a navigation application
    Patent number: 6038559
    Abstract: A geographic database for use with a navigation application program that provides navigation features to an end-user. The geographic database includes data entities that represent segments of roads and additionally includes data entities that represent aggregations of segments of roads. The data entities that represent aggregations of segments of roads are used during a route calculation by the navigation application to suppress evaluation of roads of lesser functional rank thereby enhancing performance of the navigation system. According to one aspect, each of the data entities that represent segments of roads that represents a segment of a road that together with at least one other segment of a road forms part of an aggregation which is represented by one of the data entities that represent aggregations of segments of roads includes a reference thereto.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 1998
    Date of Patent: March 14, 2000
    Assignee: Navigation Technologies Corporation
    Inventors: Richard A. Ashby, Paul M. Bouzide, Srinivasa Doddapaneni, Robert P. Fernekes, Matthew Friederich, Vijaya S. Israni, John C. Jasper, Asta Kavakh, William McDonough, James A. Meek, Senthil K. Natesan, Nicholas E. Smith