Patent ID: 8166083

Claim:
A method in a wireless communication device for use in displaying a map, the wireless communication device being configured to operate in a wireless communication network and including a user interface comprising a display, the method comprising: receiving, via the user interface, a selection of a hypertext link object in an electronic file or message, the hypertext link object being associated with a Uniform Resource Locator (URL) string which comprises a server address and location data corresponding to a location; and in response to receiving the selection of the hypertext link object: when a mapping application is not installed in the wireless communication device: executing a web browser application of the wireless communication device for receiving and displaying a map image of the location indicated in the URL string based on a request sent to a server identified by the server address; and when the mapping application is installed in the wireless communication device: instead of executing the web browser application for receiving and displaying the map image, executing the mapping application for rendering a map of the location based on a request sent to a network map server that is different from the server identified by the server address.