Patent Document ID: 20120212490
Application ID: 13460248
Patent Status: 0

Claim One:
1. A method for handling data comprising: storing and combining data, by at least one computing device, for a geographic region in a volumetric storage unit (VSU) database from a plurality of different source products, wherein the VSU database is a volumetric storage space of a plurality of different volumetric storage units (VSUs); receiving, by the VSU database, requests from a plurality of different applications; for each of the requests, determining, via the at least one computing device, a respective one filter of a set of filters; for each of the requests, applying, via the at least one computing device, the respective one filter to conditionally exclude data of the VSU database; and for each of the requests, providing, via the at least one computing device, the VSU database data resulting from applying the respective one filter to one of the plurality of different applications from which the corresponding one of the requests was issued.