Patent ID: 7260473

Claim:
A method of route guidance for a user using a mobile station including a processor and a directional indicator which provides a reference direction of the mobile station, the mobile station connecting the user to an on-line service which has access to an electronic database containing geographic information, the method comprising: transmitting information of a user's local position and the user's destination from the user's mobile station to the on-line service to request route guidance data for route guidance of the user; processing at the on-line service the route guidance data as a function of branching of a total route to the user's destination as a series of route sections with route section destinations; transmitting for each route section a specification of a direction and a destination name for the route section destination from the on-line service to the mobile station to identify each route section; the processor processing the specification of direction and the reference direction to define a target direction of a current route section destination; and displaying, by the mobile station, from a starting position for a current route section the target direction of the current route section destination, route guidance data of the current route section destination, and guidance data of only one upcoming route section of the route out of a route list, wherein the route guidance data additionally includes information about a direction relating to a sequence of house numbers; and updating the display upon reaching the current route section destination in that the current route section destination forms the starting position for a next route section.