Patent ID: 9083789
Filing Date: 2015-07-14
Classification: G01C,G06Q,H04L,H04M,H04W

Abstract:
1. A method of displaying a map in a mobile communication device having a memory storing a contact list, and a display, the method comprising: receiving an instruction to map a location of an address of a contact in the contact list; in response to the instruction, identifying an address of the location in one or more address fields of the contact, sending, via a wireless communication network, a request for location coordinates with the address as an input, and receiving, via the wireless communication network, geographic coordinate information of the location in response to the request for the location coordinates; when map rendering data for the location corresponding to the geographic coordinate information is cached in the memory of the mobile communication device, causing a map for the location corresponding to the geographic coordinate information to be rendered in the display based on the map rendering data cached in the memory; and otherwise, when the map rendering data for the location corresponding to the geographic coordinate information is not cached in the memory of the mobile communication device,