Patent ID: 8631353

Claim:
A method of providing notification of instant messages on a wireless communication device, the wireless communication device having a graphical user interface displayed on a display of the wireless communication device, the method comprising: displaying at least one icon associated with an instant message application on the graphical user interface of the wireless communication device; receiving a plurality of instant messages on the wireless communication device, the plurality of instant messages including messages from a plurality of different messaging correspondents; in response to receiving at least one of the plurality of instant messages, visually modifying the at least one icon associated with an instant message application to generate an additional portion to notify a user of the received instant message; and in response to a user-activation of the instant message application associated with the visually modified icon, displaying a dialog box, the dialog box including a plurality of messaging entries, each messaging entry associated with a different messaging correspondent including at least one correspondent from whom a plurality of messages have been received, and each messaging entry displaying at least a portion of an instant message and an identifier for the associated messaging correspondent.