Patent ID: 7640491

Claim:
A method of customizing arrangement of content displayed on a display device of a mobile computing device, the method comprising: an act of creating a template file at a network computing device, which represents a layout for displaying content at the mobile computing device that is updated automatically and without user intervention, by performing the acts of: generating static content and layout information corresponding to the static content; generating one or more references to dynamic content and layout information corresponding to the one or more references to dynamic content, the dynamic content changing over time; and including the static content, the one or more references to the dynamic content, as well as corresponding layout information in the template file; an act of generating computer-executable instructions for substituting the dynamic content at the mobile computing device, the substituted dynamic content being stored separate from the template file and substituted for the one or more references to the dynamic content included in the template file; an act of transferring the template file and the computer-executable instructions to the mobile computing device in order to customize arrangement of the dynamic content at the mobile computing device wherein the computer-executable instructions are executed at the mobile computing device to facilitate merging updated displayable dynamic content at the mobile computing device with the layout information corresponding to the one or more references to dynamic content, wherein the template file, including the layout information is stored at the mobile computing device; and an act of monitoring content denoted in a registration and when dynamic content of interest changes, transporting the dynamic content to the mobile computing device where the transported dynamic content is merged with the layout information corresponding to the one or more references to dynamic content.