Method and device for transmitting navigation information from data processing center to an on-board navigation system

• US 6,745,123 B1
• Filed: 05/17/2002
• Issued: 06/01/2004
• Est. Priority Date: 07/03/1999
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
• Original Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
• Inventors: Kersken, Ulrich, Hahlweg, Cornelius, Draeger, Gerd, Petzold, Bernd
• Primary Examiner(s): ARTHUR JEANGLAUDE, GERTRUDE
• Application Number:
  US10/030,554
• Time in Patent Office: 746 Days
• Field of Search: 701/24, 701/25, 701/200, 701/207, 701/208, 701/212, 701/214, 340/988, 340/989, 340/993, 340/995, 340/995.1
• US Class Current: 701/200
• CPC Class Codes: G01C 21/34 Route searching; Route guidance
• CPC Class Codes: G08G 1/096827 where the route is computed onboard
• CPC Class Codes: G08G 1/096838 where the user preferences are taken into account or the user selects one route out of a plurality
• CPC Class Codes: G08G 1/096888 where input information is obtained using learning systems, e.g. history databases

Abstract

A method and a device for transmitting navigation information from a data processing center to an on-board navigation system. The device includes a request profile generating device for generating an individual request profile according to the navigation information required by the on-board navigation system, a communication device for transmitting the individual request profile from the navigation system to the data processing center via a wireless interface, a preparation device provided in the data processing center for analyzing the transmitted individual request profile and preparing the navigation information required in the on-board navigation system and transmitting back the required navigation information from the data processing center to the on-board navigation system via the wireless interface, and a navigation information integrating device for integrating the back-transmitted, required navigation information into the on-board navigation system.

Claims

1. A method of transmitting and receiving navigation information between a data processing center and an on-board navigation system, the method comprising:

receiving an individual request profile transmitted from the on-board navigation system to the data processing center via a wireless interface;

analyzing the transmitted individual request profile in the data processing center; and

transmitting the navigation information from the data processing center to the on-board navigation system via the wireless interface taking into account a result of the analysis;

wherein a data format of a database used in the on-board navigation system is transmitted, and the navigation information is transmitted from the data processing center to the on-board navigation system in the data format.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the on-board navigation system includes a data storage device to store a navigation information database, and back-transmitted navigation information is stored in the data storage device to replace respective navigation information already stored in the database to at least one of update and supplement the database.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein at least one of an up-to-the-minute map content and additional information are held in the data processing center as the navigation information.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the individual request profile includes at least one of:

a driver'"'"'s behavior,

a current traffic situation,

a planned travel route,

optimization criteria for a route search,

at least one of an exclusion of a certain road class and additional information,

a desired update frequency for time-variable additional information, the data format of the database of the navigation system,

a geographic area description of a desired map section, and

segments contained in the desired map section at least one of partially delimiting and encircling the desired map section.

5. The method of claim 4, wherein the driver'"'"'s behavior includes an average speed.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein communication is conducted with a plurality of data processing centers.

7. A device for transmitting navigation information between an on-board navigation system and a data processing center, the device comprising:

a request profile generating device to generate an individual request profile according to the navigation information required in the on-board navigation system;

a communication device to transmit the individual request profile from the on-board navigation system to the data processing center via a wireless interface; and

a navigation information integrating device to integrate back-transmitted, required navigation information into the on-board navigation system;

wherein the data processing center includes a preparation device to analyze a transmitted individual request profile and to prepare the navigation information required in the on-board navigation system, and to transmit back required navigation information from the data processing center to the on-board navigation system via the wireless interface; and

wherein a data format of a database used in the navigation system is transmitted to the data processing center, and the navigation information is converted by the preparation device into the data format of the database used in the navigation system and transmitted in the data format to the navigation system.

8. The device of claim 7, wherein the on-board navigation system includes an over-writeable mass storage medium to store the navigation information.

9. The device of claim 7, wherein map content and additional information can be called in a respective database of the data processing center as navigation information.

10. The device of claim 7, wherein the individual request profile includes at least one of a driver'"'"'s behavior,

a current traffic situation,

a planned travel route,

optimization criteria for a route search,

at least one of an exclusion of a certain road class and additional information,

a desired update frequency for time-variable additional information,

the data format of the database used in the navigation system,

a geographic area description of a desired map section, and

segments contained in the desired map section at least one of partially delimiting and encircling the map section.

11. The device of claim 10, wherein the driver'"'"'s behavior includes an average speed.