Implementing geographical taxonomy within network-accesible service registries using spatial extensions

摘要

Techniques are disclosed for using geographical taxonomy data in network-accessible registries (such as the Universal Description, Discovery, and Integration, or “UDDI”, registry), where this taxonomy data leverages spatial extenders within spatially-enabled databases. Built-in functions of a spatially-enabled object relational database system can then be used for entries in the network-accessible registry.