Mobile communication device with e-map data, a phone book, and wireless communication, and an application method thereof

• US 20060252434A1
• Filed: 05/09/2005
• Published: 11/09/2006
• Est. Priority Date: 05/09/2005
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: GIGA-BYTE Communications, Inc. (Giga-Byte Technology Co.), Gigabyte Technology Company Limited (Giga-Byte Technology Co.)
• Original Assignee: GIGA-BYTE Communications, Inc. (Giga-Byte Technology Co.), Gigabyte Technology Company Limited (Giga-Byte Technology Co.)
• Inventors: Lin, Bing-Sheng
• Application Number:
  US11/124,040
• Publication Number:
  US 20060252434A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 455/456.500
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/52 specially adapted for the location of the user terminal
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/2757 by data transmission, e.g. downloading

Abstract

The present invention describes a mobile communication device with e-map data, a phone book and wireless communication, and an application method thereof. The mobile communication device uses integrated e-map data, a phone book, and wireless communication capabilities to display point-of-interest information on said device or to transfer said point-of-interest information to another mobile communication device through wireless transmission to implement a data query and data sharing function, thereby supplementing capabilities found in prior-art mobile communication devices.

Claims

1. An application method for a mobile communication device with a e-map data, comprising the following steps:

displaying a data display interface;

receiving query data;

calling an e-map data query engine unit to request said e-map data by using said query data;

returning a query result and displaying the query result on a human-machine data processing interface unit; and

executing a command input by a user through said human-machine data processing interface unit.

2. The application method of claim 1, wherein said data display interface is a phone book interface or a map display interface.

3. The application method of claim 2, further comprising a step of:

determining if an end-of-search signal is received, wherein if said end-of-search signal is received, the application method returns to the displaying step, and if said end-of-search signal is not received, the application method returns to the receiving step.

4. The application method of claim 2, wherein said query data are input by a user through said human-machine data processing interface unit.

5. The application method of claim 2, wherein said e-map data query engine unit comprises an electronic map engine and a point-of-interest information engine.

6. The application method of claim 2, wherein said query result is a text, point-of-interest information, a map graph, or a combination thereof.

7. The application method of claim 2, wherein said command comprises importing said text or said point-of-interest information into a personal phone book, transferring said text or said point-of-interest information to a dialing unit for dialing, and transmitting said query result to other mobile communication devices through a wireless communication scheme, or a combination thereof.

8. The application method of claim 7, wherein said personal phone book is included in said human-machine data processing interface unit.

9. The application method of claim 7, wherein said wireless communication scheme is SMS/MMS, infrared, Bluetooth or wireless local area network.

10. A method of receiving e-map data for a mobile communication device with an e-map data, comprising the following steps:

receiving a point-of-interest information through wireless transmission scheme;

displaying a text of said point-of-interest information; and

determining whether said point-of-interest information is to be imported into said e-map data, wherein if yes, said point-of-interest information is imported into said e-map data.

11. The method of claim 10, wherein the determining step comprises determining if a user has input an importing command.

12. The method of claim 10, wherein said e-map data comprises an electronic map and point-of-interest information.

13. The method of claim 12, wherein said wireless transmission scheme is SMS/MMS, infrared, Bluetooth or wireless local area network.

14. The method of claim 12, further comprising the step of determining if said point-of-interest information includes image information.

15. The method of claim 14, further comprising the step of determining whether said image information is to be viewed or not.

16. A mobile communication device, comprising:

e-map data;

an e-map data query engine unit for receiving query data to search said e-map data; and

a human-machine data processing interface unit for connecting said e-map data query engine unit to display a query result.

17. The mobile communication device of claim 16, further comprising a wireless transmission interface unit connecting to said e-map data query engine unit.

18. The mobile communication device of claim 16, wherein said human-machine data processing interface unit comprises a map display interface, a point-of-interest information search interface and a phone book interface.

19. The mobile communication device of claim 16, further comprising a dialing unit connecting to said map display interface, said point-of-interest information search interface and said phone book interface.