Patent ID: 8249805

Claim:
A method for updating information on existing favorite places pre-established in a navigation system for an old home address to be appropriate to a new home address, comprising the following steps of: checking, using a processor of the navigation system, data received by the navigation system to detect whether the old home address of a user has been changed to the new home address; evaluating attribute data regarding the existing favorite places related to the old home address; searching for new favorite places around the new home address equivalent to the existing favorite places around the old home address based on the attribute data regarding the existing favorite places; determining whether the updating of the existing favorite places should be conducted automatically or upon instruction by the user; updating the existing favorite places pre-established by the user and stored in the navigation system by replacing the existing favorite places for the old home address stored in the navigation system with the equivalent new favorite places for the new home address; and repeating the above steps every time when there is a change in the home address; wherein the home address is an address selectively input by the user and is saved in the navigation system that serves as a basic location of the user for operation of the navigation system.