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Matched Legal Cases: ['Application No. 200580013912', 'Application No. 05726046', 'Application No. 2', 'Application No. 2', 'Application No. 2', 'art 3', 'Application No. 200580013912', 'Application No. 05729642']

US Patent for Generating and serving tiles in a digital mapping system Patent (Patent # 7,962,281 issued June 14, 2011) - Justia Patents Search
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serving the map tiles in response to a user map request, wherein the serving comprises: distributing a map tile request to one of a plurality of front end tile servers; providing the requested tile from one of a plurality of back end tile servers to a corresponding front end tile server;
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Patent number: 7962281
Patent Publication Number: 20100020091
Inventors: Jens Eilstrup Rasmussen (San Francisco, CA), Lars Eilstrup Rasmussen (Farlight), Stephen Ma (Kingsford)
Application Number: 12/573,698