Dynamic interface for mobile devices

• US 9,351,044 B1
• Filed: 09/07/2012
• Issued: 05/24/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 12/23/2008
• 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., Kneisley, Gabriel B., Nichols, Jarrod A., Whitney, Jason K.
• Primary Examiner(s): Chuang, Jessica
• Application Number:
  US13/606,018
• Time in Patent Office: 1,355 Days
• Field of Search: 715/716, 715/781, 715/789
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 21/52 during program execution, e.g. stack integrity ; Preventing unwanted data erasure; Buffer overflow
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 21/577 Assessing vulnerabilities and evaluating computer system security
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2221/032 Protect output to user by software means
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2221/2149 Restricted operating environment
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 27/034 on discs G11B27/036, G11B27/038 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 27/34 Indicating arrangements indicating means incorporated in magazine or cassette G11B23/046 and G11B23/0875; indicating measured values in general G01D
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/663 Preventing unauthorised calls to a telephone set
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2201/42 Graphical user interfaces
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2203/053 remote terminal provisioning, e.g. of applets
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2203/257 remote control of substation user interface for telephonic services, e.g. by ISDN stimulus, ADSI, wireless telephony application WTA, MExE or BREW
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 3/42 Systems providing special services or facilities to subscribers specially adapted for wireless communication networks H04W4/00
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4622 Retrieving content or additional data from different sources, e.g. from a broadcast channel and the Internet web site content organization and management for information retrieval from the Internet G06F16/958; transmission by internet of broadcast information H04H60/82; stock exchange data over packet-switching network H04L12/1804; push services including data channel over packet-switching network H04L12/1859
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/47 End-user applications

Abstract

A communications device dynamic interface system is provided. The system comprises an at least one communications device and a dynamic interface application, that when executed on the at least one communications device, arranges a plurality of selectable, viewable panes in a virtual carousel format. The system also displays at least one of data and interactive content within the panes, the data and interactive content received from external sources. The system also changes the viewing sequence of the panes on demand and places less frequently viewed panes in a background area of the interface. The system also archives panes not viewed for a predetermined period of time and deletes panes not viewed for a predetermined period of time.

Claims

1. A communications device system for managing a plurality of panes in a dynamic interface, comprising:

an at least one communications device associated with a service provider and which provides communication services over a service provider network;

a dynamic interface application, that when executed on the at least one communications device,

arranges a plurality of selectable, viewable panes in a virtual carousel format in the dynamic interface,

displays at least one of data and interactive content within the panes, the data and interactive content received from external sources,

changes a viewing sequence of the panes on demand,

places less frequently viewed panes in a background area of the dynamic interface,

archives panes not viewed for a predetermined period of time, wherein the archived panes are completely removed from the dynamic interface, and wherein the archived panes are bookmarked or indexed by at least one of date or subject matter to enable recovery,

recovers the archived panes at a user'"'"'s discretion at a later time, wherein the recovered archived panes are restored to the dynamic interface based on the bookmarking or indexing, and

deletes panes not viewed for a predetermined period of time, wherein the deleted panes are not recoverable; and

a device security application, that when executed on the at least one communications device,

identifies panes of the plurality of selectable viewable panes to be marked confidential when a security compromise occurs,

identifies functionality of the dynamic interface application and functionality of the communication services to be disabled when the security compromise occurs, and

upon receipt of a security message from the service provider, renders inaccessible the panes marked confidential by one of deleting and temporarily disabling access to the panes and disables the identified functionality of the dynamic interface application and the identified functionality of the communication services.

2. The system of claim 1, wherein the system periodically receives an electronic transmission from an external source containing at least one of data and interactive media.

3. The system of claim 2, wherein the content received in the electronic transmission is associated with an application accessible in at least one of the selectable, viewable panes in the dynamic interface.

4. The system of claim 2, wherein the content contained in the electronic transmission is one of added to and inserted in replacement of content received in a previous electronic transmission.

5. The system of claim 1, wherein panes and selectable objects within panes one of represent applications in an operative state and point to applications in an operative state.

6. The system of claim 1, wherein tabs representing a subset of the panes are displayed in a portion of the viewing area of the communications device.

7. The system of claim 1, wherein at least some of the data and interactive content is received via really simple syndication (RSS) technology.

8. The system of claim 1, wherein the dynamic interface application places some rarely viewed panes off screen, wherein the dynamic interface application promotes scrolling horizontally to view the otherwise off screen panes.

9. The system of claim 1, wherein the dynamic interface application changes the view sequence of the panes based on an event.

10. The system of claim 9, wherein one of the panes associated with the event is dynamically refreshed to provide notification of at least one of schedule changes, announcements, pictures, or blog entries.

11. The system of claim 9, wherein one of the panes associated with the event is deleted from the dynamic interface.

12. The system of claim 1, wherein the dynamic interface application further disables functionality of the at least one communication device when the at least one communications device is determined to be lost, stolen, or misplaced.

13. A method of managing a plurality of panes in a dynamic interface, comprising:

arranging, by a dynamic interface application stored on a non-transitory memory and executable by a communications device, a plurality of selectable, viewable panes in a virtual carousel format in the dynamic interface,

displaying, by the dynamic interface application, at least one of data and interactive content within the panes, the data and interactive content received from external sources,

changing, by the dynamic interface application, a viewing sequence of the panes on demand,

placing, by the dynamic interface application, less frequently viewed panes in a background area of the dynamic interface,

archiving, by the dynamic interface application, panes not viewed for a predetermined period of time, wherein the archived panes are completely removed from the dynamic interface, and wherein the archived panes are bookmarked or indexed by at least one of date or subject matter to enable recovery,

recovering, by the dynamic interface application, the archived panes at a user'"'"'s discretion at a later time based on the bookmarking or indexing, wherein the recovered archived panes are restored to the dynamic interface,

deleting, by the dynamic interface application, panes not viewed for a predetermined period of time, wherein the deleted panes are not recoverable,

identifying, by a device security application stored on a non-transitory memory and executable by the communications device, panes of the plurality of selectable viewable panes to be marked confidential when a security compromise occurs,

identifying, by the device security application, functionality of the dynamic interface application and functionality of the communication services to be disabled when the security compromise occurs, and

upon receipt of a security message from the service provider, rendering inaccessible the panes marked confidential by one of deleting and temporarily disabling access to the panes and disables the identified functionality of the dynamic interface application and the identified functionality of the communication services.

14. The method of claim 13, further comprising periodically receiving an electronic transmission from an external source containing at least one of data and interactive media.

15. The method of claim 14, wherein the content received in the electronic transmission is associated with an application accessible in at least one of the selectable, viewable panes in the dynamic interface.

16. The method of claim 14, wherein the content contained in the electronic transmission is one of added to and inserted in replacement of content received in a previous electronic transmission.

17. The method of claim 13, wherein panes and selectable objects within panes one of represent applications in an operative state and point to applications in an operative state.

18. The method of claim 13, further comprising displaying tabs representing a subset of the panes in a portion of the viewing area of the communications device.

19. The method of claim 13, further comprising maintaining profiles, wherein each profile describes a specific set of panes to be displayed in the dynamic interface for a user during at least one of specific times of a day and specific days of a week.

20. The method of claim 13, wherein the panes in the dynamic interface comprise a home pane, and wherein the home pane contains a pointer to a main menu pane containing selectable objects, the selectable objects representing links to at least one of data and interactive content.