Patent ID: 6430411
Filing Date: 2002-08-06
Classification: H04L,H04M,H04W

Abstract:
A method for retrieving a phone number with a mobile station of a mobile communication network, comprising the steps of:providing a user with a group of identifiers each corresponding to a geographical point of interest (POI), allowing a user to select a (POI) and its corresponding identifier with the mobile station, corresponding to the selected identifier, retrieving from a memory data on the selected POI, the data comprising at least the POI's position and phone number, and allowing the user to initiate a call to the selected POI using said phone number stored in the memory of the mobile station; wherein if the data in the memory does not include the phone number for the POI, the method further comprising the steps of, automatically contacting a server over the mobile communication network to obtain said phone number from the server, sending from the server to the mobile station the phone number over the mobile communication network, receiving the phone number at the mobile station, and storing the received phone number in the memory.