Method and system for a building database manipulator
AssigneeWireless Valley Communications, Inc.
InventorsTheodore Rappaport, Roger Skidmore
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Abstract
A Building Databases Manipulator builds databases for a variety of physical environments including buildings, terrain, and other site parameters, by scanning in or rapidly tracing or editing data, and verifying that the data is formatted and sufficient for use in other engineering applications, and generating a set of formatted data which is transportable. Grouping objects in layers allows for simultaneous conversion of all objects in one layer to have certain predetermined attributes (e.g., converting objects to be made from glass versus cement; converting objects within a layer to have a uniform, smaller or larger, height or width dimension).
Claims29
A computer implemented method for manipulating data representing a physical environment in which an in-building or campus communications network is or will be deployed, comprising the steps of:
- (a) using a computer for creating and formatting one or more objects defining an environment in which an in-building or campus communications network is or will be deployed comprising at least one of floors, walls, partitions, buildings, building complexes or compounds, terrain, foliage or other sites or obstructions;
- (b) verifying, using a computer, the sufficiency of said one or more objects to ensure a useful definition of said environment and notifying a user of results of said verification of sufficiency;
- (c) generating a set of formatted data in a form transportable to and usable by a computer based engineering planning model or other application, said set of formatted data including at least one layer which includes grouped objects of said one or more objects;
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- (d) rendering a three-dimensional view of said environment.
An apparatus for manipulating data representing a physical environment in which an in-building or campus communications network is or will be deployed, comprising:
- computer implemented means for creating and formatting one or more objects defining an environment in which an in-building or campus communications network is or will be deployed comprising one or more of floors, walls, partitions, buildings, building complexes or compounds, terrain, foliage or other sites or obstructions;
- means for verifying, by a computer, the sufficiency of said one or more objects to ensure a useful definition of said environment and notifying a user of results of said verification of sufficiency;
- means for generating a set of formatted data in a form transportable to and usable by a computer based engineering planning model or other application, said set of formatted data including at least one layer which includes grouped objects of said one or more objects;
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- means for rendering a three dimensional view of said environment.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.