GEO-ENABLED PERSONAL INFORMATION MANAGER

摘要

A personal information manager computer program for storing names, addresses , telephone numbers and the like for personal and business contacts includes a capability for delivering geographic information in response to user requests. The personal information manager provides a display which includes one or more fields for entering or selecting contact information. The display also includes a number of buttons for reque sting different types of geographic information, such as maps, directions, weather and yello w pages information. When the user clicks on one of the buttons, the personal inform ation manager utilizes an address or other location identifier associated with the contact name to format a request to a geographic information server. The server uses the location i dentifier to retrieve the appropriate geographic information for that location, and sends the information to the personal information manager for display.