Patent ID: 7656275

Claim:
A method of controlling an alarm for alerting a user of a mobile device of a predetermined time, said mobile device having an alarm application stored in memory and an alarm status indicator to indicate the status of the alarm at a particular location on a display of said mobile device outside of the alarm application, the method comprising: storing on said mobile device, one or more settings associated with at least three states for said alarm, a first of said states being off, a second of said states being active, and a third of said states being active and suppressed for a predetermined time period; upon said first state being active, said indicator being visually absent from said particular location on said display; upon said second state being active, displaying a first version of said indicator on said display of said mobile device; and upon said third state being active, displaying a second version of said indicator on said display, said second version being visually distinguishable from said first version to thereby indicate to said user that said alarm has been set for said predetermined time but will not be triggered during said predetermined time period.