User interface update signaling

• US 8,498,657 B1
• Filed: 06/11/2009
• Issued: 07/30/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 06/11/2009
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: T-Mobile Innovations LLC (Deutsche Telekom AG)
• Original Assignee: Sprint Communications Company LP (Deutsche Telekom AG)
• Inventors: Delker, Jason R., Everson, John M., Ng, Sei Y., Whitney, Jason K.
• Primary Examiner(s): Bost, Dwayne
• Assistant Examiner(s): KOHLMAN, CHRISTOPHER J
• Application Number:
  US12/483,135
• Time in Patent Office: 1,510 Days
• Field of Search: 455/466
• US Class Current: 455/466
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2209/545 Gui
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/542 Event management; Broadcasting; Multicasting; Notifications
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72406 by software upgrading or downloading
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 3/42178 by downloading data to substation equipment
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/50 Service provisioning or reconfiguring

Abstract

A system is provided for user interface update signaling. The system includes a user interface that executes on a mobile device, a signaling server, and a background application. The signaling server receives an update from a third party application and sends at least some of the update to the mobile device. The background application executes on the mobile device, receives the at least some of the update, and stores the at least some of the update in a file in the mobile device. The background application also provides a uniform resource locator that specifies where the file is located to the user interface to enable the user interface to display the at least some of the update.

Claims

1. A system for user interface update signaling, comprising:

a multi-tile user interface that executes on a mobile device, wherein the multi-tile user interface comprises a plurality of tiles on a display of the mobile device, wherein each of the plurality of tiles is an individual pane, and wherein the multi-tile user interface enables a user to specify a third party application for a tile of the plurality of tiles;

a signaling server that receives an update from the third party application specified for the multi-tile user interface and sends at least some of the update to the mobile device via a wireless paging channel of the mobile device or a power signaling channel of the mobile device; and

a background application that executes on the mobile device, receives the at least some of the update from the signaling server without establishing a data session by receiving the at least some of the update via the wireless paging channel of the mobile device or the power signaling channel of the mobile device, stores the at least some of the update in a file in the mobile device, and provides a uniform resource locator that specifies where the file is located on the mobile device to the multi-tile user interface, wherein the multi-tile user interface displays the at least some of the update on the tile of the plurality of tiles upon accessing the uniform resource locator.

2. The system of claim 1, wherein the multi-tile user interface further initiates a data session and requests additional data related to the update from the third party application via the data session.

3. The system of claim 1, wherein the multi-tile user interface comprises a plurality of tiles in a carousel arrangement, wherein the tile associated with the at least some of the update displays information associated with a receipt of the at least some of the update.

4. The system of claim 3, wherein the information associated with the receipt of the at least some of the update comprises the at least some of the update.

5. The system of claim 3, wherein the tile displays the at least some of the update in response to a first level of selection of the tile.

6. The system of claim 5, wherein the tile displays information associated with a corresponding third party application of a plurality of third party applications that comprise the third party application in response to a second level of selection of the tile, wherein the plurality of third party applications comprise at least one of a social network application, a weather application, a stock market application, a news application, a text message interface application, a web access application, an email application, a navigation application, a television application, and a music application.

7. The system of claim 1, wherein the mobile device is one of a personal computer, a mobile telecommunications device, a mobile handset, a personal digital assistant, a mobile computer, a gaming device, a wireless mobile device, a pager, a portable computer, a tablet computer, a laptop computer, a media player, a digital camera, a digital music player, and a digital calculator.

8. The system of claim 1, wherein the signaling server further parses header information in the update to identify the mobile device.

9. A computer implemented method for user interface update signaling, comprising:

receiving, by a mobile device, at least some of an update from a third party application without establishing a data session by receiving the at least some of the update via a wireless paging channel of the mobile device or a power signaling channel of the mobile device, wherein the third party application is assigned to a tile of a plurality of tiles of a multi-tile user interface on a display of the mobile device, and wherein each of the plurality of tiles is an individual pane;

storing the at least some of the update in a file in the mobile device; and

providing a uniform resource locator that specifies where the file is located on the mobile device to the multi-tile user interface on the mobile device, wherein the multi-tile user interface displays the at least some of the update on the tile of the plurality of tiles upon accessing the uniform resource locator.

10. The computer implemented method of claim 9, further comprising:

requesting, by the mobile device, more of the update;

receiving the more of the update; and

storing the more of the update in the file in the mobile device.

11. The computer implemented method of claim 9, wherein receiving the at least some of the update comprises receiving the at least some of the update via a short message service message.

12. The computer implemented method of claim 9, wherein receiving the at least some of the update comprises receiving the at least some of the update via a voice mail indicator message.

13. The computer implemented method of claim 9, wherein receiving the at least some of the update comprises receiving the at least some of the update via a power setting message.

14. The computer implemented method of claim 9, wherein to display the at least some of the update is based on a user specified timing criteria for displaying updates on the tile of the multi-tile user interface corresponding to the update.

15. A system for user interface update signaling, comprising:

a multi-tile user interface that executes on a mobile device, wherein the multi-tile user interface comprises a plurality of tiles on a display of the mobile device, wherein each of the plurality of tiles is an individual pane, and wherein the multi-tile user interface enables a user to specify a third party application for a tile of the plurality of tiles;

a signaling server that receives an update from the third party application specified for the multi-tile user interface and sends an update notice to the mobile device via a wireless paging channel of the mobile device or a power signaling channel of the mobile device; and

a background application that executes on the mobile device, receives the update notice from the signaling server without establishing a data session by receiving the update notice via the wireless paging channel of the mobile device or a power signaling channel of the mobile device, requests at least some of the update from the signaling server, receives the at least some of the update from the signaling server, stores the at least some of the update in a file in the mobile device, and provides a uniform resource locator that specifies where the file is located on the mobile device to the multi-tile user interface, wherein the multi-tile user interface displays the at least some of the update on the tile of the plurality of tiles upon accessing the uniform resource locator.

16. The system of claim 15, wherein the signaling server sends the update notice to the mobile device via a short message service message.

17. The system of claim 15, wherein the signaling server sends the update notice to the mobile device via a voice mail indicator message.

18. The system of claim 15, wherein the signaling server sends the update notice to the mobile device via a power setting message.