System and method for displaying the location of a wireless communications device wiring a universal resource locator

A method for displaying a street address associated with a mobile communication device comprising:

• acquiring a current latitude and longitude of the mobile communication device;
• appending data indicative of the acquired latitude and longitude to the URL address of a Web server, and navigating a browser contained within the mobile communication device to the URL address;
• parsing the data indicative of the latitude and longitude from the URL address at the Web server and performing reverse geocoding on the parsed latitude and longitude data to generate the street address;
• sending data indicative of the street address from the Web server to the mobile communication device;
• and
• displaying the street address using the mobile communication device.

A method for presenting the current street address of a wireless communications device including a wireless browser on a display of the device comprising:

• acquiring the current latitude and longitude of the device;
• activating the wireless browser;
• appending data indicative of the latitude and longitude of the device to a URL address of a Web server;
• sending the data indicative of the latitude and longitude to the Web server using the wireless browser;
• reverse geocoding the latitude and longitude data at the Web server to generate the street address of the device;
• sending data indicative of the street address from the Web server to the device;
• and
• presenting the street address on the display of the device.

A method for using an Internet browser in a first mode to display the street address of a wireless handset incorporating the browser and to dial a telephone number in a second mode, said method comprising:

• receiving an input from a user of the wireless handset, wherein the input comprises either a location request or a telephone number to be dialed;
• determining whether the input comprises a location request or a telephone number;
• and
• if the input is a telephone number, terminating the browser and dialing the telephone number in the second mode;
• and
• if the input is a location request, acquiring the current latitude and longitude of the handset, navigating the browser to a reverse geocoding Web server, performing geocoding on the latitude and longitude to generate the street address of the handset, and sending the street address to the handset for display on the handset display in the first mode.

A wireless communications system comprising:

• a wireless handset comprising a transceiver for sending and receiving communications across a wireless communication network;
• an Internet browser configured to accept a user request for the current location of the handset, wherein the request includes a URL address;
• and a position determination unit for determining the current latitude and longitude of the handset in response to the user request;
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• a Web server located at the URL address contained in the user request and in communication with the handset over the network, the Web server receiving the latitude and longitude from the Internet browser, performing reverse geocoding on the latitude and longitude to generate the street address of the handset, and sending the street address to the handset for display.