Patent ID: 7404148

Claim:
A method for indicating characteristics of a subsequent action, the method implemented in a communications device having processing resources and an operating system object including a user interface element for selection of the subsequent action, the method comprising: prior to a user beginning the subsequent action, the communications device processing resources providing a sensory cue corresponding to a set of subsequent action characteristics when the subsequent action includes wireless data communications performed by the communications device using compact mark-up language (CML), the set of subsequent action characteristics relate to the wireless data communications; the subsequent action characteristics comprise a link type, transmission mode, security measure attributes, maximum message size, cost of a subsequent action, or speed of a network; the sensory cue informing the user of the corresponding set of subsequent action characteristics, and the sensory cue comprises an image that is embedded into the user interface element when the subsequent action includes wireless data communications performed by the communications device and is removed when the subsequent action does not include wireless data communications performed by the communications device.