Patent ID: 7706843

Claim:
A wireless communication device, comprising: light sources configured to alert a user of the device to one or more events or conditions; electronics configured to illuminate the light sources in a pattern that results from illuminating the light sources according to a sequence of data records, each data record associating intensity fields with a duration field, each of the light sources that is illuminated during the pattern being associated with a different one of the intensity fields in each of the data records and each of the intensity fields in each one of the data records being associated with a different one of the light sources that is illuminated during the pattern, an intensity value entered into each intensity field indicating an intensity at which the associated light source is to be illuminated, a duration value entered into the duration field indicating a single duration that the electronics associate with each of the light sources that is illuminated during the pattern, one of the data records in the sequence having different intensity values entered into different intensity fields, the electronics illuminating the light sources according to each data record by illuminating each light source that is illuminated during the pattern at the intensity value entered into the associated intensity field, and the electronics associating all of the light sources that are illuminated during the pattern with the single duration entered into the duration field of each data record in that the electronics illuminate the light sources according to each data record for the single duration entered into the duration field of the data record.