Patent ID: 7756967

Claim:
A method of providing, from one or more server devices to a client device, information related to a networked information monitor, comprising: storing in a database associated with a first server device, a collection of networked information monitor templates; providing, via the first server device, to a first client device an index of available networked information monitor templates; receiving, at the first server device from the first client device, a first request for a user-selected networked information monitor template from the index of available networked information monitor templates; the first server device, in response to the first request, transmitting to the first client device the requested networked information monitor template; wherein the networked information monitor template comprises: (1) frame characteristics that define one or more aspects of a visual appearance of a frame for a graphical user interface associated with the networked information monitor, wherein the one or more aspects of the visual appearance of the frame comprise one or more of a size of the frame, a shape of the frame, a position of the frame on an electronic display, or a color of the frame, (2) one or more content references that comprise one or more uniform resource locators at which content for the networked information monitor is accessible over a network, and (3) instructions configured to: i) cause the networked information monitor to request content from the one or more uniform resource locators; and ii) display content received at the uniform resource locators in a graphical user interface within the frame defined by the frame characteristics.