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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 26, 2014
Filed:
Nov. 04, 2009
Richard Stanton, Auckland, NZ;
Richard Stanton, Auckland, NZ;
Mitac International Corp., Kuei-Shan Hsiang, Tao-Yuan Hsien, TW;
Abstract
A method of assisting a user of a personal navigation device with parking nearby a destination location includes receiving instructions from the user to create navigation instructions to the destination location, determining that the destination location is in an urban area, querying whether the user requires parking, and presenting a plurality of nearby parking areas to the user when the user requests parking, receiving the user's choice of a selected parking area from the plurality of nearby parking areas presented to the user, and planning a route to the destination location using the selected parking area as an intermediate destination.