Patent ID: 6989770
Filing Date: 2006-01-24
Classification: G01C,G06F

Abstract:
1. A navigation system comprising: end user electronic devices; a customer-interface server; and a navigation-services server, wherein said end user electronic devices send requests for navigation services to said customer-interface server and receive responses to said requests from said customer-interface server; wherein said customer-interface server includes programming that, upon receiving said requests from said end user electronic devices, transmits query messages over the Internet to said navigation-services server, wherein said query messages request navigation information for responding to said requests; wherein said navigation-services server receives said query messages from said customer-interface server, and using navigation applications installed on said navigation-services server and a geographic database associated therewith, formulates language-independent reply messages to said query messages, and sends said language-independent reply messages to said customer-interface server, and wherein said customer-interface server further includes programming that, upon receiving said language-independent reply messages from said navigation-services server, formulates said responses and sends said responses to said end user electronic devices.