Patent ID: 7715873

Claim:
A method on a wireless telecommunications device for coordinating communication with a wearable accessory to provide visual indicia of an incoming network event received on the wireless telecommunications device from a wireless telecommunications network, the method comprising: detecting the presence of a wearable accessory within a wireless personal area network of the wireless telecommunications device; requesting a display type of the wearable accessory, wherein the display type of the wearable accessory is one of a plurality of different display types capable of providing visual indicia of an incoming network event; receiving a response from the wearable accessory providing an indication of the display type of the wearable accessory; determining whether one or more interface parameters are available on the wireless telecommunications device for the display type of the wearable accessory, wherein the one or more interface parameters define data, corresponding to the display type of the wearable accessory, communicated from the wireless telecommunications device to the wearable accessory to cause the wearable accessory to provide visual indicia of the incoming network event; when one or more interface parameters are not available on the wireless telecommunications device for the display type of the wearable accessory, obtaining the one or more interface parameters; and upon receiving an incoming network event, sending a signal to the wearable accessory using the one or more interface parameters, the signal causing the wearable accessory to provide visual indicia of the incoming network event.