Patent ID: 8792911

Claim:
A navigation method comprising: associating a wireless identifier of a wireless communicator with a person upon entry into a complex including a building or group of buildings, the person having a destination somewhere in the complex, including creating a record associated with the person at a host computer by a check-in computer at a start point of the complex, the record containing a destination of the person and the wireless identifier carried by the person; storing identification information for the person in the record by the check-in computer; assigning a differentiator to the person by the check-in computer; receiving the wireless identifier by a first navigation station located on a route of the person, the route starting at the start point; determining directions to a second navigation station located on the route by the first navigation station, including using the wireless identifier to identify the record at the host computer, to obtain the destination from the record, and to determine the directions from the first navigation station to the second navigation station based upon the destination; and providing the directions to the person by the first navigation station.