Patent ID: 8160649

Claim:
A method for initiating telephone calls from a mobile device which operates in a wireless communication network, the method comprising: determining without user intervention whether any number strings in text of a data item are telephone number strings according to first predetermined criteria; causing each number string in the text of the selected data item determined to be a telephone number string according to the first predetermined criteria to be displayed as a selectable hyperlinked number string; causing a telephone call to be initiated to a hyperlinked number string through the wireless communications network when first predetermined user input is detected; causing a list of user selectable functions to be displayed in response to detecting further predetermined user input when a position marker is located within a number string in the displayed text which does not meet the first predetermined criteria, the list of user selectable functions including a telephone call function for initiating a telephone call to the number string when the number string meets second predetermined criteria, wherein the second predetermined criteria are less stringent than the first predetermined criteria; and causing a telephone call to be initiated to a number string through the wireless communications network when the telephone call function for the number string is selected from the list of user selectable functions.