Patent ID: 7747970

Claim:
A method for receiving and interacting with preview content on a mobile electronic device, comprising: receiving the preview content on the mobile device that is encoded on a communication signal, wherein the communication signal is broadcast to many electronic devices and wherein the preview content is a preview of more detailed information that is available to a user; wherein the preview content is determined from configuration settings set by a user; wherein the configuration settings comprise: preview sources to automatically download to the mobile device; personal information used to personalize the preview content and the more detailed information relating to the preview content; and an option to automatically download the more detailed information for the preview content when the preview content is received; wherein after the configuration settings are selected by the user a configuration message is received on the mobile device that is sent from another computing device that comprises the preview sources selected and information on how to display the preview content; displaying the preview content on an auxiliary display of the mobile electronic device; wherein the mobile electronic device includes a primary display and the auxiliary display; wherein the auxiliary display and the primary display are different physical displays on the mobile device; wherein displaying the preview content comprises displaying a first portion of the preview content for a predetermined period of time on the auxiliary display and then replacing the display of the first portion of the preview content with a second portion of the preview content after the predetermined period of time; wherein a portion of the preview content that is displayed within the auxiliary display changes in response to a selection on the mobile device; wherein the display of the preview content on the auxiliary device includes an indication when a full story is available for download; when a personalized story is available for download; and when more than one story is available to be downloaded that relates to the preview content; determining when the user desires to view more detailed information relating to the preview content, and when it has been determined that the user desires to view the more detailed information; determining when the detailed information is on the device; wherein the detailed information is automatically downloaded to the device based on the configuration settings personalized by the user; when the detailed information is not on the device then establishing a connection with a data store that provides the more detailed information; obtaining the more detailed information; and displaying the more detailed information on the primary display of the mobile device.