Patent ID: 8055440

Claim:
A method for use in navigating, comprising: receiving a communication, at a mobile navigation system from a wireless mobile external device, requesting navigation instructions; determining whether the communication comprises navigation information, where the navigation information is stored on the external device prior to the external device receiving a request for navigation instructions that identifies a desired location, and the navigation information comprises the desired location for which the navigation instructions are desired; extracting, at the mobile navigation system, the navigation information when the communication comprises the navigation information; identifying, at the mobile navigation system, a navigation location that corresponds to the desired location of the navigation information when the communication comprises the navigation information; validating, at the mobile navigation system, whether the desired location is valid relative to information of the navigation system; retrieving, at the mobile navigation system, a current location; generating, at the mobile navigation system, the navigation instructions between the current location and the navigation location; determining whether the communication comprises multimedia information; and displaying the multimedia information on a local display of the mobile navigation system, wherein the displaying the multimedia information, received from the external device, on the local display of the mobile navigation system comprises displaying the multimedia information formatted for the local display of the mobile navigation system in response to instructions from the external device to a remote source supplying the multimedia information designating that the multimedia information be formatted for the local display of the navigation system and not formatted for a display of the external device.