Patent ID: 8723823

Claim:
A method for providing notifications on a mobile computing device, the method comprising: enabling multiple applications operating on the mobile computing device to generate notifications in response to application-specific event occurrences; presenting a plurality of notification representations in a status bar on a display, the plurality of notification representations being individually generated by a corresponding one of the multiple applications in response to an event occurrence; responding to user selection of the status bar by presenting a notification graphic including one or more notification representations generated by a first application from the multiple applications, the one or more notification representations being presented (i) in at least a first portion of the notification graphic, (ii) with a number that represents how many notification representations from the first application have been generated and not dismissed, and (iii) with content corresponding to one of the event occurrences associated with the first application; wherein the first portion of the notification graphic also includes a graphic image representing the first application.