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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 02, 2003
Filed:
May. 17, 2000
Robert Rennard, San Martin, CA (US);
Sean Quan Du, San Jose, CA (US);
Sami Fawzi Nasser, San Jose, CA (US);
Yi-Chung Chao, Milpitas, CA (US);
Ruslan Adikovich Meshenberg, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Haiping Jin, San Jose, CA (US);
Chung Benjamin Yip, Los Altos, CA (US);
TeleVigation, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Abstract
An enhanced operating environment for an Interactive Real-Time Distributed Navigation system is disclosed. In the present invention, an enhanced operating environment is provided by improving input and output techniques in a navigation system. Disclosed are methods for reducing the number of inputs to a navigational sytstem through a wireless device. Improved input methods include methods for entering non-deterministic information to retrieve deterministic information. Also disclosed are improved output techniques including methods for pacing navigational prompts provided by a navigation system. The invention is applicable to text, graphics or audible navigation systems.