Patent ID: 8494764

Claim:
A host navigation device comprising: a first receiving section configured to receive via a communication network: a first signal indicating a current position of a first mobile navigation device and a first destination for a user of the first mobile navigation device; a second signal indicating a current position of a second mobile navigation device and a second destination for a user of the second mobile navigation device; a calculation unit configured to calculate a rendezvous position for the user of the first mobile navigation device and the user of the second mobile navigation device based on: the current position of the first mobile navigation device; the first destination; the current position of the second mobile navigation device; and the second destination, the second destination being different than the first destination; wherein the positions of the first and second mobile units are automatically updated without requiring any user interaction and wherein the actual rendezvous position may be changed according to the updated positions of the first and second mobile units; and a transmission section configured to encode the rendezvous position in an output signal transmitted via the communications network to the first mobile navigation device and the second mobile navigation device.