Patents by Inventor Brian E. Smartt

Brian E. Smartt 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).

  • System and method of optimizing database queries in two or more dimensions
    Publication number: 20030187867
    Abstract: A method and system for storing and retrieving spatial data objects from a spatial database is discussed. The system stores multi-dimensional objects within the database by determining their position in a multi-tiered coordinate system. One each object has been assigned to a particular coordinate, the object is further assigned to one of many overlapping sections within the coordinate system. Each object is assigned to a particular section of the coordinate system depending on its overall size and position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 22, 2002
    Publication date: October 2, 2003
    Inventor: Brian E. Smartt
  • System and method of optimizing database queries in two or more dimensions
    Patent number: 6470287
    Abstract: A method and system for storing and retrieving spatial data objects from a spatial database is discussed. The system stores multi-dimensional objects within the database by determining their position in a multi-tiered coordinate system. One each object has been assigned to a particular coordinate the object is further assigned to one of many overlapping sections within the coordinate system. Each object is assigned to a particular section of the coordinate system depending on its overall size and position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 14, 1999
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2002
    Assignee: Telcontar
    Inventor: Brian E. Smartt
  • System and method of optimizing database queries in two or more dimensions
    Patent number: 5963956
    Abstract: A method and system for storing and retrieving spatial data objects from a spatial database is discussed. The system stores multi-dimensional objects within the database by determining their position in a multi-tiered coordinate system. One each object has been assigned to a particular coordinate, the object is further assigned to one of many overlapping sections within the coordinate system. Each object is assigned to a particular section of the coordinate system depending on its overall size and position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 1997
    Date of Patent: October 5, 1999
    Assignee: Telcontar
    Inventor: Brian E. Smartt
  • Method of clustering multi-dimensional related data in a computer database by combining the two verticles of a graph connected by an edge having the highest score
    Patent number: 5706503
    Abstract: A method of clustering multi-dimensional related data performed by identifying features from a collection of data, each of said features being represented by a vertex, selecting pairs of features that it is desirable to cluster together, connecting the pair of vertices representing every selected pair of features by an edge, assigning a score to every edge according to a predetermined formula, selecting an edge having the highest score, creating a new vertex by merging the vertices connected by the selected edge, creating new edges between the new vertex and the vertices previously connected to the merged vertices, and repeating this procedure until every edge has a predetermined score.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 18, 1994
    Date of Patent: January 6, 1998
    Inventors: Richard F. Poppen, Brian E. Smartt, Linnea A. Dunn, Frank J. Derose