Patent ID: 7190976

Claim:
In a mobile handheld computing device that includes a display device, wherein the mobile handheld computing device is associated with one or more networks, and wherein the display device may receive content from the mobile handheld computing device and from the one or more associated networks, a method for customizing the arrangement of content displayed on the display device so as to allow a user to personalize the displayed content for their specific needs, the method comprising: creating a layout that defines how content is displayed on the display device of the mobile handheld computing device, by performing the acts of: defining one or more sections of the layout; specifying one or more content generating elements from which content may be received for one or more of the defined sections of the layout so as to define where content generated by the content generating elements may be displayed; and defining attributes associated with content received from the one or more selected content generating elements that cause the appearance of content displayed on the display device of the mobile handheld computing device to be customized.