Patent ID: 7668653

Claim:
A system for providing updated event information to a user of a vehicle, comprising: a navigation unit for determining a geographic position of the vehicle; a receiver for receiving event information updates from a remote location; a memory unit; and a processor unit operatively coupled to the navigation unit, the receiver, and the memory unit, wherein the processor unit is programmed to: store position data regarding the determined geographic position in the memory unit prior to a vehicle deactivation; retrieve the position data from the memory unit after a vehicle reactivation; use the position data to filter a first portion of the received event information updates to discard updates regarding events occurring farther than a predetermined distance from the determined geographic position of the vehicle; and generate the updated event information from the filtered event information updates, wherein the receiver and the navigation unit are initialized in response to the vehicle reactivation, and the first portion of the event information updates is received by the receiver after the receiver is initialized but before the navigation unit is initialized.