Patent Document ID: 9715877
Application ID: 14314576

Base Claim:
1. A method for searching navigation system data including phonetic data and text data, the method comprising: storing the phonetic data and the text data in a storage device accessible from within a mobile platform, the phonetic data including a set of point-of-interest names in phonetic form, and the text data including at least a portion of the same set of point-of-interest names in text form; receiving a spoken utterance from a user; querying the phonetic data of the navigation system data with the spoken utterance to find a corresponding match; if a corresponding word-for-word match is not found via the querying of the phonetic data, processing the spoken utterance to produce a dictation text substantially corresponding to the spoken utterance, wherein the dictation text is tuned for speech that is typical of navigation destination entry types; and querying the text data of the navigation system data with the dictation text using an approximate string matching criteria and producing a results list associated therewith.

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Claim 4:
4. The method of claim 1 , further including providing the results list to the user for selection of a desired result.