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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 08, 2002
Filed:
Feb. 10, 2000
Ralf Duckeck, Hildesheim, DE;
Robert Bosch GmbH, Stuttgart, DE;
Abstract
In a method for transmitting location-related information between a navigational device, which contains a first location database in which location coordinate pairs and descriptors are assigned to location specifications, and a receiver for digitally coded traffic messages, the receiver containing a second location database, location coordinate pairs, in addition to descriptors, are stored in the location specifications contained in the second location database, in a receiver and a navigational device. Along with the information to be transmitted, at least the coordinate pair is transmitted of the location to which the information relates. With the assistance of at least the transmitted coordinate pair, the location specification is selected from the given location database.