Patent ID: 6351656
Filing Date: 2002-02-26
Classification: G08B

Abstract:
A method at a battery-powered communications device for presenting messages on a display of the communication device after reception of the messages at the communication device, including at least one message pre-designated by a sender of the message prior to reception of the message at the communication device as a high priority message, the messages including message data, the device having a user control, the display also for presenting other function information, comprising the steps of:(a) presenting on the display message data of one message of the messages in response to activating the user control; and (b) activating the user control to present on the display other function information, and in response thereto, presenting on the display both the other function information and at least a portion of the message data of the one message of step (a) if the one message of step (a) was pre-designated a high priority message by the sender of the one message prior to reception of the one message at the communication device, otherwise presenting on the display the other function information and none of the message data of the one message of step (a).