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Context-sensitive navigational aid

  • US 8,755,968 B2
  • Filed: 04/22/2008
  • Issued: 06/17/2014
  • Est. Priority Date: 04/22/2008
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A navigational aid, comprising:

  • a location receiver for detecting a current location;

    a database of locations of businesses of interest;

    a screen for selectively displaying a destination selected by a user and at least one of the businesses of interest on a map; and

    a context-sensitive filter for selecting which businesses stored in the database and located in locations shown on the map are displayed on the map and which businesses stored in the database and located in locations shown on the map are not displayed, wherein the context sensitive filter receives a distance to the destination and selectively displays businesses such that businesses displayed on the map comprise parking locations when the distance to the destination is below a threshold and businesses not displayed on the map comprise parking locations when the distance to the destination is above the threshold.

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