Patent ID: 8670727

Claim:
A method of establishing a wireless connection between a wireless telephone and a portable navigation device including a touchscreen, the method comprising: performing a search at the portable navigation device for local wireless telephones using a wireless link and retrieving preliminary information from the wireless telephones over said wireless link; as a result of the search, depicting a graphical user interface (GUI) with a graphical list of available local wireless telephones; prompting a user of the portable navigation device to select at least one preferred wireless telephone from the graphical list of available local wireless telephones; querying a plurality of entries in a database within the navigation device based on the preliminary information, the plurality of entries including configuration information specific to one or more detected wireless telephones; upon the user selecting a preferred wireless telephone from the graphical list of available local wireless telephones, establishing the wireless connection to the selected wireless telephone by an automatic procedure using at least one entry of the plurality of entries that results from a successful query; upon successfully establishing the wireless connection to the selected wireless telephone, storing in the navigation device at least one entry including preliminary information or configuration information specific to the selected wireless telephone; searching, by the portable navigation device, the selected wireless telephone with an established connection to identify one or more wireless telecommunications features supported by the selected wireless telephone; listing on the portable navigation device, the identified one or more supported wireless telecommunications features to a user; receiving a touch selection on the touchscreen of the navigation device from the user to select at least one telecommunications feature from the one or more wireless telecommunications features for use on the navigation device; storing on the navigation device at least an indication of the selected features; indicating, on the portable navigation device, the selected telecommunications features being stored in the navigation device; and providing, by the portable navigation device, a graphical user interface for the selected telecommunications features such that the user can initiate or terminate the selected telecommunications features of the selected wireless telephone using the touchscreen on which the graphical user interface is displayed.