Patent Document ID: 8554479
Application ID: 10556293

Base Claim:
1. A navigation system for a motor vehicle, comprising: a navigation module for route planning; a display arrangement configured to display information including textual indications of location, additional items of information concerning the locations indicated by the textual indications of location, the additional items of information corresponding to respective destinations within the locations, each destination being assigned respective geographic coordinates, and the display arrangement being further configured to display route information; an input arrangement configured to receive a hierarchical, interactive destination input by, in conjunction with the display arrangement and conditional upon a selecting of an ambiguous textual indication of location by a user, which ambiguous textual indication identifies a plurality of destination alternatives, each of which is displayed with the same name: initially displaying the plurality of destination alternatives identified by the ambiguous textual indication as a list, without displaying the additional items of information, providing the user with a choice between a plurality of categories of additional information, receiving the choice from the user, and subsequently displaying, in response to a user selection of a particular one of the plurality of destination alternatives, those additional items of information that correspond to the selected destination alternative and which belong to a category specified by the choice; and a memory in which each destination alternative is stored together with corresponding geographic coordinates, and the geographic coordinates of the selected destination alternative are used to determine the additional items of information that correspond to the selected destination alternative.

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Claim 3:
3. The navigation system according to claim 1 , wherein the displaying the additional items of information that correspond to the selected destination alternative includes a displaying of at least one map segment in which the selected destination alternative is located.