Patent ID: 8649970

Claim:
A method for providing popular routes via a global positioning satellite (GPS) system, the method comprising: receiving, at the GPS system, a route request that contains a desired destination; determining, via the GPS system, a current location; connecting to a network server that contains a plurality of routes stored in a route database; in response to connecting to the network server, transmitting a route selection request that contains the current location and the desired destination; receiving a route selection list, wherein the route selection list contains a plurality of routes previously taken by other drivers, and wherein each particular route is assigned a popularity rating that is derived from a calculation of a number of users taking the particular route versus the number of users for which the particular route has been transmitted to; displaying one or more of the routes of the route selection list on a display along with a corresponding popularity rating of each particular route, wherein the popularity rating of each displayed route is viewable on the display; requesting a selection of one of the displayed routes as a selected route; in response to receiving the selected route, displaying the selected route as an overlay on a map display.