Patent ID: 9342206
Filing Date: 2016-05-17
CPC Classification: G06F,G09B

Claim Text:
1. A method for temporarily marking a location on a map display, said method comprising the steps of: a) sensing information relating to presence of targets in a region including location data of said sensed targets; b) making said sensed data available on an internetwork; c) at a first location, accessing said sensed information with map information relating to said region thereby generating map display information; d) making said map display information available on said internetwork; e) at a second location remote from said first location, accessing said map display information by way of said internetwork with a browser-enabled display device; f) displaying said map display information on a first display layer on the display device at said second location; g) providing by a processor at said second location a cursor overlying said map display information on the first display layer on said display device at said second location, and receiving a selected map location selected using the cursor on said display device; h) commanding by the processor at said second location generation of a user-specified map location icon based on the received selected map location; i) in response to said command for generation of the user-specified map location icon, j) defining a document object model, wherein said document object model comprises a first node representing the first display layer containing the map display information and a plurality of child nodes of the first node representing a second display layer containing the user-specified map location icon, said plurality of child nodes defining said user-specified map location icon, wherein each child node includes a number of pixels representative of a segment of the user-specified map location icon; and k) at said second location, fading said user-specified map location icon at a user-specified fade rate, wherein fading said user-specified map location icon comprises eliminating at least one selected child node of said plurality of child nodes from said document object model at said user-specified fade rate by: