Patent ID: 9542241
Date: 2017-01-10
CPC Classifications: G01C,G06F

Claim:
1. A navigation system comprising: a processor; a navigation platform including a plurality of support devices; an application interface configured to interface the navigation platform with a navigation solution, the interface including a set of pre-defined functions executable by the processor to adapt the navigation platform according to a plurality of information types included in an information tree provided by the navigation solution, wherein the navigation solution contains information corresponding to each information type; an information discovery and exchange component executable by the processor to discover the information types available in a specified level of the information tree provided by the navigation solution by: the navigation platform configured to determine, using the processor, a subset of the pre-defined functions supported by the navigation solution based on the discovered information types, and where the navigation platform is further configured to access the information values in the information tree of the navigation solution by issuance of a request for information using the subset of the pre-defined functions.