Patent ID: 7925298
Filing Date: 2011-04-12
Classification: G06F,H04M,H04W,Y02D

Abstract:
1. A user interface (UI) for depiction by a display of a secondary display module of a mobile electronic device, the secondary display module having a secondary logic processor unit coupled with an input device and configured to support functions of the secondary display module, the mobile electronic device having a main display, a memory and a main logic processor unit external to the secondary display module, both the main logic processor unit and secondary logic processor unit being coupled via a common system bus with the input device and having an operating system (OS), the UI comprising: a plurality of buttons graphically depicted by the display of the secondary display module, the plurality of buttons corresponding to a plurality of applications that can be selectively started on the mobile electronic device with the main logic processor unit, and at least one of the plurality of applications being stored in the memory and having a corresponding low power application and data that are disposed in the memory on the mobile electronic device and can be selectively accessed on the mobile electronic device with the secondary logic processor unit disposed on the secondary display module, the corresponding low power application providing one or more features that are not supported by the at least one of the plurality of applications in addition to the corresponding low power application being accessible on the secondary display module and being accessible without engaging the OS of the main logic processor unit, wherein activation of a button of the plurality of buttons, using the input device that is coupled with the main logic processor unit and secondary logic processor unit via the common system bus such that the main logic processor unit and secondary logic processor unit can directly receive signals from the input device, selectively allows a user to: 1) with the secondary logic processor unit, access data of the application in the memory corresponding to the activated button using the corresponding low power application without engaging the OS of the main logic processor unit and without engaging the one of the plurality of applications, and 2) activate the OS of the main logic processor unit and the low-power application associated with the one of the plurality of applications corresponding to the activated button.