System and method for displaying address information on a map

• US 8,682,579 B2
• Filed: 06/07/2013
• Issued: 03/25/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 11/07/2007
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Malikie Innovations Limited (Key Patent Innovations Limited)
• Original Assignee: Blackberry Limited
• Inventors: Dicke, Ronald Anthony
• Primary Examiner(s): Jen, Ian
• Application Number:
  US13/912,257
• Publication Number:
  US 20130275040A1
• Time in Patent Office: 291 Days
• Field of Search: None
• US Class Current: 701/454
• CPC Class Codes: G01C 21/26 specially adapted for navigation in a road network
• CPC Class Codes: G01C 21/30 Map- or contour-matching
• CPC Class Codes: G01C 21/3673 Labelling using text of road map data items, e.g. road names, POI names
• CPC Class Codes: G01S 19/13 Receivers

Abstract

A method of displaying a map on a wireless communications device includes determining position information of a position on the map, displaying a graphical position indicator representing the position on the map, determining address information corresponding to the position on the map, and presenting the address information via a user interface of the device by displaying a street number on the map adjacent to the graphical position indicator.

Claims

1. A method of displaying a map on a wireless communications device, the method comprising:

determining position information of a position on the map;

displaying a graphical position indicator representing the position on the map;

determining address information corresponding to the position on the map; and

presenting the address information via a user interface of the device by displaying a street number on the map adjacent to the graphical position indicator.

2. The method as claimed in claim 1 wherein determining the position information comprises identifying a center of the map displayed onscreen.

3. The method as claimed in claim 1 wherein presenting the address information comprises displaying a street number in a floating box graphically linked to the graphical position indicator displayed on the map.

4. The method as claimed in claim 1 wherein presenting the address information comprises audibly reporting the address information.

5. The method as claimed in claim 1 wherein presenting the address information comprises audibly reporting the address information and displaying a street number.

6. The method as claimed in claim 1 wherein presenting the address information comprises displaying a pair of odd and even street numbers corresponding to addresses on each side of the position.

7. A non-transitory computer readable medium comprising code which, when loaded into memory and executed on a processor of a wireless communications device, causes the wireless communications device to:

determine position information of a position on the map;

display a graphical position indicator representing the position on the map;

determine address information corresponding to the position on the map; and

present the address information via a user interface of the device by displaying a street number on the map adjacent to the graphical position indicator.

8. The computer readable medium as claimed in claim 7 wherein the code to determine the position information comprises code for identifying a center of the map displayed onscreen.

9. The computer readable medium as claimed in claim 7 wherein the code to present the address information comprises code for displaying a street number in a floating box graphically linked to the graphical position indicator displayed on the map.

10. The computer readable medium as claimed in claim 7 wherein the code for presenting the address information comprises code for audibly reporting the address information.

11. The computer readable medium as claimed in claim 7 wherein the code for presenting the address information comprises code for audibly reporting the address information and for displaying a street number.

12. The computer readable medium as claimed in claim 7 wherein the code for presenting the address information comprises code for displaying a pair of odd and even street numbers corresponding to addresses on each side of the position.

13. A wireless communications device comprising:

a display for displaying a map; and

a processor operatively coupled to memory configured to cause the device to;

determine position information of a position on the map;

display a graphical position indicator representing the position on the map;

determine address information corresponding to the position on the map; and

present the address information via a user interface of the device by displaying a street number on the map adjacent to the graphical position indicator.

14. The wireless communications device as claimed in claim 13 wherein the processor is configured to determine the position information by identifying a center of the map displayed onscreen.

15. The wireless communications device as claimed in claim 13 wherein the processor is configured to present the address information by displaying a street number in a floating box graphically linked to the graphical position indicator displayed on the map.

16. The wireless communications device as claimed in claim 13 wherein the processor is configured to present the address information comprises by audibly reporting the address information.

17. The wireless communications device as claimed in claim 13 wherein the processor is configured to present the address information by audibly reporting the address information and by displaying a street number.

18. The wireless communications device as claimed in claim 13 wherein the processor is configured to present the address information by displaying a pair of odd and even street numbers corresponding to addresses on each side of the position.

19. The wireless communications device as claimed in claim 13 wherein the processor is configured to present the address information by displaying a street number and street name in a floating box graphically linked to the graphical position indicator displayed on the map.