Patent Document ID: 20120191723
Application ID: 13441415
Patent Status: 0

Claim One:
1. A method comprising: receiving, at a computing device, a query, wherein said query comprises a constraint defining a bound geographic space, wherein said query comprises a constraint on an attribute of an object; responsive to receiving the query, determining, at the computing device, a set of voxels corresponding to the bound geographic space, wherein each of the voxels represents a volumetric unit of volumetric storage space; determining, at the computing device, a subset of voxel records of a database, wherein each of the voxel records in the subset has a unique voxel identifier for one of the determined voxels; utilizing, at the computing device, information from the voxel records to determine a set of objects contained in the bound geographic space; determining, at the computing device, a set of feature records for the set of objects, wherein each of the feature records is indexed against a unique object, wherein each of the determined feature records has an storage value for the attribute that satisfies the constraint on the attribute; and creating, at the computing device, a query response for the received query, said query response comprising information from the determined set of feature records.