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Jul 2006.
News brief: Patent awarded to Genasys

Genasys was recently granted a patent for "System and Method for Naming Geographic Areas", something Genasys otherwise calls Fractal Models. Fractal models offer a method for describing a given geographic area using a name that will both make sense to the the information user and be appropriate to the size, shape and context of the area. Although there may be other uses, Fractal model systems are of principal benefit in the support of location-based mobile services where a meaningful way to refer to a geographic area has obvious value. Network-based positioning systems like Cell-ID offer varying levels of precision depending upon the density of antennas in the area where the mobile is being located. Fractal models take the area found by the positioning system and, comparing it with geographic data of the area, provide an appropriate name for the area given it's size, shape, and location.