Patent ID: 8498657

Claim:
A system for user interface update signaling, comprising: a multi-tile user interface that executes on a mobile device, wherein the multi-tile user interface comprises a plurality of tiles on a display of the mobile device, wherein each of the plurality of tiles is an individual pane, and wherein the multi-tile user interface enables a user to specify a third party application for a tile of the plurality of tiles; a signaling server that receives an update from the third party application specified for the multi-tile user interface and sends at least some of the update to the mobile device via a wireless paging channel of the mobile device or a power signaling channel of the mobile device; and a background application that executes on the mobile device, receives the at least some of the update from the signaling server without establishing a data session by receiving the at least some of the update via the wireless paging channel of the mobile device or the power signaling channel of the mobile device, stores the at least some of the update in a file in the mobile device, and provides a uniform resource locator that specifies where the file is located on the mobile device to the multi-tile user interface, wherein the multi-tile user interface displays the at least some of the update on the tile of the plurality of tiles upon accessing the uniform resource locator.