Navigation device and method for exchanging data between resident applications
First Claim
1. A navigation device programmed with a map database and navigation software that enables a route to be planned between two user-defined places, wherein the device is further programmed to be able to display a menu option that, if selected, causes the automatic export of street, city format or postcode format address data used by an application resident on the device to the navigation software resident on the device for processing.
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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.
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15 Claims
- 1. A navigation device programmed with a map database and navigation software that enables a route to be planned between two user-defined places, wherein the device is further programmed to be able to display a menu option that, if selected, causes the automatic export of street, city format or postcode format address data used by an application resident on the device to the navigation software resident on the device for processing.
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14. A method of displaying navigation information, the method being deployed in a device programmed with a map database and navigation software that enables a route to be planned between two user-defined places, the method comprising the step of displaying a menu option that, if selected, causes the automatic export of street, city format or postcode format address data from an application resident on the device to the navigation software resident on the device for processing.
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15. Computer software adapted to enable a navigation device, programmed with a map database and navigation software to calculate a route between two user-defined places, to be able (i) to display a menu option that, if selected, causes the automatic export of street, city format or postcode format address data from an application resident on the device to the navigation software resident on the device for processing.
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