{"id":264,"date":"2007-01-04T09:53:00","date_gmt":"2007-01-04T13:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.searchenginegenie.com\/news-seo\/google-granted-us-patent-for-similarity-engine\/"},"modified":"2012-09-10T02:39:07","modified_gmt":"2012-09-10T06:39:07","slug":"google-granted-us-patent-for-similarity-engine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.searchenginegenie.com\/news-seo\/google-granted-us-patent-for-similarity-engine\/","title":{"rendered":"Google granted US patent for &#8216;similarity engine&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The US Patent and Trademark Office have finally granted two patents to Google, one for methods and apparatus estimates similarity and another one for a digital mapping system. This patent number 7,158,962 was initially filed during 2001 and took five years to receive approval.<\/p>\n<p>It will describe the method whereby a similarity engine creates compact representative of objects called &#8216;Sketches&#8217;. These sketches that contain weighting could further be compared for similarities.<\/p>\n<p>Google&#8217;s Digital Mapping Systems patent explains different methods, systems and apparatus for implementing aspects of a digital mapping system&#8217;. It comprises the methods for using map tiles and grids in client-server environments.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The US Patent and Trademark Office have finally granted two patents to Google, one for methods and apparatus estimates similarity and another one for a digital mapping system. This patent number 7,158,962 was initially filed during 2001 and took five years to receive approval. It will describe the method whereby a similarity engine creates compact [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,62],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-264","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-search-engine","category-social-networking"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.searchenginegenie.com\/news-seo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.searchenginegenie.com\/news-seo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.searchenginegenie.com\/news-seo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.searchenginegenie.com\/news-seo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.searchenginegenie.com\/news-seo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=264"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.searchenginegenie.com\/news-seo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2227,"href":"https:\/\/www.searchenginegenie.com\/news-seo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264\/revisions\/2227"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.searchenginegenie.com\/news-seo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=264"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.searchenginegenie.com\/news-seo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=264"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.searchenginegenie.com\/news-seo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=264"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}