Patent ID: 7657281

Claim:
A method of displaying information on a display associated with a cellular telephone, the method comprising: displaying information from at least a first of a plurality of applications on the display while the cellular telephone is in a standby mode; and then automatically selecting a second of the plurality of applications based on a set of pre-defined rules; and then automatically replacing the displayed information from the first of the plurality of applications with information from the second of the plurality of applications while the cellular telephone remains in the standby mode; wherein the cellular telephone is configurable to receive at least one user-provided temporal parameter to establish at least some of the set of pre-defined rules that result in the automatic selection of the second of the plurality of applications; wherein the cellular telephone is configurable to receive at least one user-provided location parameter to establish at least some of the set of pre-defined rules that result in the automatic selection of the second of the plurality of applications; wherein the second of the plurality of applications comprises a task list application; wherein the at least one user-provided location parameter used to establish at least some of the set of pre-defined rules that result in the automatic selection of the second of the plurality of applications comprises at least a work location; and wherein the at least one user-provided temporal parameter used to establish at least some of the set of pre-defined rules that result in the automatic selection of the second of the plurality of applications comprises at least a time of day and a day of the week when the task list from the task list application may be displayed.