Patent ID: 8081987
Filing Date: 2011-12-20
Classification: G06F,H04L,H04W

Abstract:
1. A method for implementing a Geographic Information Systems (GIS) network, said method comprising: receiving configuration data comprising a unique identification of a mobile electronic device and an assigned membership of said mobile electronic device to a workgroup; selecting a data dictionary based upon said assigned membership of said mobile electronic device to said workgroup and wherein said data dictionary comprises at least one desired GIS feature type which was not originally intended for use by said mobile electronic device; sending said data dictionary to said mobile electronic device via a wireless communication network; determining that said data dictionary is not yet resident upon said mobile electronic device; automatically sending said data dictionary to said mobile electronic device; determining that a GIS data collector application for enabling said mobile electronic device to perform GIS data collector functions is not a current version of said GIS data collector application; and sending said current version of said GIS data collector application to said mobile electronic device via said wireless communication network.