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Mobile communication device including text-to-speech module, a touch sensitive screen, and customizable tiles displayed thereon

  • US 9,305,542 B2
  • Filed: 10/09/2013
  • Issued: 04/05/2016
  • Est. Priority Date: 06/21/2011
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A method for obtaining user-selected information on mobile communication devices from active tiles displayed on the mobile devices and selected by users, comprising:

  • providing a first mobile communication device including data network communications hardware and a. touch-sensitive display screen and associating a customized live tile application module with said first mobile communication device to enable a user of said first mobile communication device to selectively provide information preselected by the user for rendering as images in a live tile rendering on said touch-sensitive display screen together with other tiles, wherein said live tile comprises a tile space at least as large as a double tile on said touch-sensitive display screen when rendering together with other tiles, and speech in at least one language pre-selected by the user to a speaker integrated in or wirelessly associated with the first mobile communication device while the live tile continues to be rendered on said touch-sensitive display screen together with other tiles, and also providing information for selective rendering as at least one more of;

    speech to a speaker wirelessly connected to the first mobile communication device, images on a flat panel display that is wirelessly connected to the first mobile communication device, images on a second. mobile communication device that is wirelessly connected to the first mobile communication device, or speech on the second mobile communication device that is wirelessly connected to the first mobile communication device;

    obtaining said information for rendering from said first mobile communication device by selection of a tile with images of interest to a user and being displayed therein thus enabling the user to thereby expand a selected application associated with the selected tile and thereafter enable the retrieving of data associated with said tile information from a remote server; and

    selectively providing at least one of said tile information and said data associated with said tile information for rendering by the selected application as at least one of images on said touch-sensitive display screen and speech to a speaker also integrated in the first mobile communication device, and also for providing information for rendering at least one more of;

    speech to a speaker wirelessly connected to the first mobile communication device, images on a flat panel display that is wirelessly connected to the first mobile communication device, images on a second mobile communication device that is wirelessly connected to the first mobile communication device, or speech on the second mobile communication device that is wirelessly connected to the first mobile communication device.

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