Patent ID: 8116974

Claim:
A method of providing guidance with a wireless client-server navigation system to a location matching criteria, comprising the steps of: following an original route to a destination; receiving, at a mobile client, data representative of criteria for locations; transmitting the data representative of the criteria for locations from the mobile client to a central server; searching a database of locations at the central server for locations matching the criteria; generating new routes, each of which includes a found location and the destination of the original route; transmitting data representative of, and associated with, found locations matching the criteria from the central server to the mobile client; presenting, at the mobile client, representations of the found locations and associated data; presenting, at the mobile client, representations of additional distance or travel time of the new routes, or incremental distance or travel time of the new routes as compared to the original route; receiving, at the mobile client, data representative of a selection of one of the found locations; and providing guidance with the mobile client from the mobile client's location to the selected location.