Navigation device and method for exchanging data between resident applications
AssigneeTomTom International B.V.
InventorsEdwin Neef, Mark Gretton
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Abstract
Navigation software is integrated with other kinds of software running on the same device so that capabilities of the navigation software can be made available from within the other applications. Those applications can export street, city or postcode format address data to the navigation software. The address data can then be converted to a co-ordinate system based address by the navigation software, which can then automatically be set as the destination address used by the navigation software in calculating the route and/or automatically marked on a map generated and displayed by the navigation software.
Claims24
A navigation device programmed with a map database, comprising:
- a processor to run navigation software that enables a route to be planned to a destination;
- and
- a display to display a menu option that, when selected, causes an automatic export of address data, usable by an application resident on the navigation device, to the navigation software resident on the navigation device for processing, and causes a conversion of the address data to a co-ordinate system based address by the navigation software,
- wherein the co-ordinate system based address is then automatically set as the destination used by the navigation software in planning the route.
A navigation device that enables a route calculation to a destination, the navigation device comprising:
- a touch screen;
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- a processor to run a contacts application on the navigation device, wherein, when a user views a contact record of the contacts displayed on the touch screen, a selectable menu icon is displayed on the touch screen which, if selected, automatically causes the processor to export a contact address used in the contacts application, to a navigation application run by the processor on the device, which then geocodes the contact address and automatically sets the geocoded contact address as the destination used in the route calculation by the navigation application.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.