Blackberry Corporation

Dash Navigation, Inc.

Decarta Inc.

Eric S Wels

Brian Eric Smartt

Laurie June Vertelney

Paul J Lima

Steven C Wollenberg

Daniel M Kohn

Richard Frederick Poppen

David Hunkins

A destination from a plurality of destinations is identified. A plurality of routes associated with the destination is calculated. A determination is made that the device is travelling along a route in the plurality of routes without receiving user input selecting the route. Navigational data associated with the route is displayed in response to determining that the device is travelling along the route.

User interface system and method for a vehicle navigation device

A user interface for use in a vehicle navigation and traffic information device. Various adaptable menu commands and intuitive UI elements are provided to ease user navigation of the interface and to minimize driver distraction while providing information in an optimized manner.

Automatic map generation is enabled by assigning priorities to each city in a list of cities under consideration for display on a map. A mapping engine determines a reference count for each city, indicating how frequently the city appears in one or more corpora of documents. Based on the reference count, and optionally upon other data such as population and political importance, a priority score is assigned to each city. Each city is then assigned to one of a plurality of categories according to the city's priority score. A map is then generated including cities from a specified highest number of categories. In one embodiment, cities from a higher-scored category are presented in a more significant way, e.g., in capital letters, bold type, etc., than are those in the next-highest scored category.

Automated prioritization of map objects

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Boulder Creek, CA, United States of America

Eric S Wels