Patent ID: 7509579
Filing Date: 2009-03-24
Classification: G06F,G06Q,G09B

Abstract:
1. A method for maintaining and graphically displaying geographic information regarding the location of telecommunication cable and determining the relative geographic distance from telecommunication cable to user-selected nodes, the method comprising: receiving geographic information in a computer readable form sufficient to generate an electronic map of the metropolitan area; receiving vendor information in a computer readable form for at least one vendor who owns installed telecommunication cable in the metropolitan area, the vendor information comprising: the location of telecommunication cable in the metropolitan area; the owner of the telecommunication cable; the locations of nodes associated with the telecommunication cable; and the types of nodes associated with the telecommunication cable; providing a graphical user interface permitting the user to select at least one vendor from the at least one vendors who own installed telecommunication cable in the metropolitan area and at least one node from the at least one nodes of the types associated with telecommunication cable in the metropolitan area; receiving user input selecting at least one of the vendors who own installed telecommunication cable in the metropolitan area for displaying the vendor information associated with the installed telecommunication cable owned by the at least one of the vendors; generating a display layer graphically illustrating the metropolitan area; based on the at least one selected vendor, generating, without user intervention, a display layer graphically illustrating the vendor information for the installed telecommunication cable of each of the vendors selected by the user; displaying the display layer graphically illustrating the metropolitan area and the display layers graphically illustrating the vendor information for the installed telecommunication cable of each of the least one vendors selected by the user; receiving user input selecting at least one of the nodes in the metropolitan area; calculating the distance from each of the at least one user-selected nodes to the at least one user-selected telecommunication cable from the metropolitan area; and displaying the calculation results of the distance to each of the at least one user-selected nodes to the nearest user-selected telecommunication cable.