System and method for providing address-related location-based data

• US 20080133599A1
• Filed: 12/05/2006
• Published: 06/05/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 12/05/2006
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Qualcomm, Inc.
• Original Assignee: Palm, Inc. (TCL Technology Group Corp.)
• Inventors: Stewart, William K., Kansal, Sachin S.
• Application Number:
  US11/634,328
• Publication Number:
  US 20080133599A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 707/104.1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/29 Geographical information databases

Abstract

A method of providing location-based data comprises providing text to be displayed on a display of an electronic device, identifying address data within the text, the address data being associated with an address, and providing the text on the display with a selectable link associated with the address.

Claims

1. A method of providing a selectable link associated with an address, comprising:

providing text to be displayed on a display of an electronic device;

identifying address data within the text, the address data being associated with an address; and

providing the text on the display with a selectable link associated with the address.

2. The method of claim 1, further comprising receiving the text in at least one of an email, a text message, a word processing document, a web page, and a contact data field.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein identifying the address data comprises determining that the address data is being displayed within a data field of a contacts application.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein identifying the address data comprises comparing the text to the contents of a data field of a contacts application.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein identifying the address data comprises applying a text-parsing algorithm to the text.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein the selectable link comprises at least a portion of the address data.

7. The method of claim 6, wherein the portion of the address data differs from a remainder of the text in at least one of a text font type and a text color.

8. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

receiving a selection of the selectable link; and

providing location-based data in response to receiving the selection, the location-based data based upon the address.

9. The method of claim 8, further comprising:

determining the location of the electronic device;

wherein the location-based data is further based upon the location of the electronic device.

11. The method of claim 1, wherein providing the location-based data comprises providing at least one of the geographic location of the address, at least one point of interest located near the address, and driving directions to and/or from the address.

12. The method of claim 1, wherein the electronic device is a handheld computing device.

10. The method of claim 10, wherein the address data is a name associated with the address.

13. An electronic device, comprising:

a processor; and

a display;

wherein the processor is configured to

provide text to be displayed on the display;

identify address data within the text, the address data associated with an address; and

provide the text on the display with a selectable link associated with the address.

14. The electronic device of claim 13, wherein the processor is configured to identify the address data by determining that the address data is being displayed as a part of a data field for a contacts application.

15. The electronic device of claim 13, wherein the processor is configured to identify the address data by comparing the text to the contents of a data field for a contacts application.

16. The electronic device of claim 13, wherein the processor is configured to identify the address data by applying a text-parsing algorithm to the text.

17. A method of providing location-based data, comprising:

providing text on a display for an electronic device;

receiving a selection of at least a portion of the text from a user; and

launching an application configured to provide location-based data in response to receiving the selection from the user.

18. The method of claim 17, wherein the text is included in one of an email, a text message, a word processing document, and a web page.

19. The method of claim 17, wherein launching the application comprises providing an image containing at least one user input field populated with the selected portion of text.

20. The method of claim 17, further comprising providing location-based data based upon the selected portion of text.