Patent Document ID: 9874449
Application ID: 15012506
Patent Status: 1

Claim One:
1. A method for displaying a target object in a target graph, the target object corresponding to an object in a source graph, the method comprising: identifying the object in the source graph by an apparatus comprising circuitry and memory, the circuitry comprising processor circuitry and user interface circuitry and the memory storing (a) a geographic database comprising a first set of map data corresponding to the source graph and (b) a geographic database comprising a second set of map data corresponding to the target graph, the object being identified by a directed way and an offset there along; defining, by the processor circuitry and based on the first set of map data, a closure graph around the object in the source graph, the closure graph comprising at least one vertex; building, by the processor circuitry and based on the first set of map data, at least one closure set based on the closure graph, the closure set comprising at least one path having either a start node or end node of the directed way at a first end of the path and an anchor node at a second end of the path, the second end being opposite the first end, wherein an anchor node is a junction that is tagged with a junction identifier, the junction identifier configured to uniquely identify the junction in both the source graph and the target graph; identifying, by the processor circuitry and based on the second set of map data, the anchor nodes of the closure set on the target graph, the identifying based at least in part on the junction identifier associated with the anchor node; deflating, by the processor circuitry and based on the second set of map data, the closure set on the target graph to identify a target object in the target graph that corresponds to the object in the source graph; and causing, by user interface circuitry, a user interface of the apparatus to display the target object in the target graph in at least near real time with respect to the identifying of the object in the source graph.