Patent ID: 6922634

Claim:
In a mobile communication network that performs mobility management of a mobile telephone to provide the mobile telephone with a wireless mobile communication capability, the mobile telephone comprising: a transmitter that transmits to a server information relating to a mobility management location of the mobile telephone; a receiver that receives from the server map data comprising vector data for scalable configuration of map elements, along with geographical indications of the map elements, and an approximated geographical location of the mobile telephone, wherein the map elements represent geographical objects and are of general geographical configurations of the geographical objects; a display that displays to variable scales the map elements in their respective geographical configurations and the approximated geographical location of the mobile phone; a map element manager that makes, from the received map elements, a list of the geographical indications of map elements and displays the list on the display for selection by a user of the mobile telephone; a display control that reconfigures displaying of the map elements displayed on the display to make distinctive on the display one or more map elements selected from the list by the user; and a coordinate converter that correlates a location pointed by the user on the display to a corresponding geographical location.