Patent ID: 9651383
Date: 2017-05-16
CPC Classifications: G01C

Claim:
1. A method for finding a destination in a user terminal, the method comprising: the user terminal determining whether the destination is an outdoor or indoor location; when the destination is an indoor location, the user terminal finding an outdoor path up to an outdoor access point of a building in which the destination is located, using an outdoor map, and displaying the found outdoor path on a display unit of the user terminal; the user terminal issuing a request to a map server for an indoor map of the building, and receiving an indoor map of the building; the user terminal finding an indoor access point and an indoor path up to the destination from the indoor access point of the building using the indoor map; and the user terminal reflecting the indoor path to the outdoor path to create an outdoor and indoor linked path at least partially using the found outdoor path; wherein the outdoor access point and the indoor access point are separated with each other; wherein the outdoor access point and the outdoor path up to the outdoor access point which have been initially found are changed according to the indoor access point when the indoor access point is found; wherein the indoor access point is determined differently depending on whether a user of the user terminal is traveling by vehicle or on foot; wherein the outdoor map includes one or more outdoor access points to the building, and the indoor map includes one or more indoor access points to the building; and wherein the indoor map and the outdoor map are separately stored in different storage spaces, respectively, and are deleted according to different criteria including a delete period and a delete process that are set different from each other, and wherein the storage spaces are in the user terminal.