Patent Document ID: 7620494
Application ID: 11278077

Base Claim:
1. A method for displaying driving directions, the method comprising: accessing data that describes at least one maneuver to be executed to traverse a route from an origin to a destination; selecting a portion of the accessed data that describes a particular maneuver, the particular maneuver including an action and a road; determining a road symbol to associate with the particular maneuver, the road symbol having substantially the same appearance as a road sign used to mark the road involved in the particular maneuver; determining an action symbol to associate with the particular maneuver, the action symbol having substantially the same appearance as a road sign used to identify the action to be performed to execute the particular maneuver; and presenting both the road symbol and the action symbol to describe the particular maneuver, such that the road symbol and the action symbol describe the particular maneuver.

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Claim 4:
4. The method of claim 1 further comprising presenting both the road symbol and the action symbol while travel is occurring.