METHOD, APPARATUS AND COMPUTER PROGRAM TO PERFORM LOCATION SPECIFIC INFORMATION RETRIEVAL USING A GESTURE-CONTROLLED HANDHELD MOBILE DEVICE

摘要

A method and apparatus (10) are disclosed that calculate (14) an area-of - interest based on a user request (12) for location specific data. The operations may include transmitting (13) initial location data of the mobile terminal (11) and user initiated gesture data to a server. The server may then perform initiating (12) a request to receive the requested location data, and calculating (14) a geographical area-of - interest based on the initial location data and the user initiated gesture data. The location specific data related to the area-of - interest may then be retrieved (15) and transmitted (16) to the mobile terminal (11). The area-of - interest may be defined based on the initial position of the mobile terminal (11) and information provided by a gesture made by the user of the mobile terminal (11).