Patent ID: 8131298

Claim:
A method of expediting a cellular phone voice call over a cellular phone telephone network using a PDA cellular phone that includes soft switches and a touch screen visual display for calling a fixed location including individually but not limited to a restaurant, police station, and fire station having a conventional telephone, displayed symbolically on a geographical map on said display, said fixed location having a telephone and said fixed location being displayed on said geographical map on the cell phone touch screen display comprising: displaying on a touch screen a geographical area on a map that includes at least one fixed location at its longitude and latitude on said map on the PDA cellular phone with a database and application program for displaying a selected geographical area on a map or chart on the touch screen display that includes at least one fixed location at its latitude and longitude on said map or chart; providing the cellular phone with a database containing the telephone number of said fixed location displayed on said geographical map or chart; initiating a voice call using the PDA cellular phone with a database and an application program to said fixed location upon touching the touch screen display including the geographical area on the map at the equivalent latitude and longitude location of said fixed location; retrieving the stored telephone number of said fixed location upon initiating said telephone call by touching said fixed location on said display; entering a new entity on the display geo-reference map including an observed object at a specific geographical location by touching the appropriate location on the map display screen; selecting a soft switch to indicate the type of entity observed causing a symbol to appear on the map screen; executing a call switch to turn on said cellular phone internal software to begin calling said fixed location; displaying a call in progress symbol on said touch screen display when said telephone call to said fixed location is in progress; and displaying a second different symbol on said touch screen display indicating that the telephone call to said fixed location has been established.