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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 08, 2015
Filed:
Jun. 09, 2011
Siamak Sartipi, Waterloo, CA;
Jason Christopher Beckett, St Catharines, CA;
Siamak Sartipi, Waterloo, CA;
Jason Christopher Beckett, St Catharines, CA;
BlackBerry Limited, Waterloo, CA;
Abstract
A method of magnifying a portion of a map displayed on a computing device includes displaying the map at a first zoom level and displaying a magnified portion of the map at a second zoom level. The magnified portion comprises an interactive map element. The magnified portion acts as a localized map magnifier. The magnified portion may be round to resemble a virtual magnifying glass. In certain implementations, multiple map magnifiers may be displayed simultaneously. Map magnifiers may be displayed, for example, at waypoints along a route, at map markers corresponding to points of interest or at the locations associated with search results.