Patent ID: 8391900

Claim:
A method for operating a personal cellular telecommunications device for use in a cellular telecommunications network, said network capable of transmitting mostly different content display messages, including interactive display messages enabling a user to activate a transmission response mechanism to respond to the interactive display message, the personal cellular telecommunications device having a dynamic storage buffer, a user interface for activating a transmission response mechanism, and a display screen operable to display visible idle screen information relating to the cellular telecommunications network and an operational state of the device, and a plurality of non-idle activity-specific screens associated with operation of the device, the method comprising: temporarily storing the display messages in the dynamic storage buffer for display on the display screen before automatically and silently discarding display messages from the dynamic storage buffer in accordance with an automatic display message discard scheme, said discarding irrespective of the display messages having been displayed on the display screen or not; and (a) simultaneously displaying the visible idle screen information on a first portion of the display screen and automatically displaying a stream of display messages from the dynamic storage buffer on a second portion of the display screen wherein the first and the second portions do not overlap; (b) upon the user invoking the displayed interactive display message, interrupting the displaying of the stream of the display messages on the display screen and displaying at least the same contents of the invoked interactive display message that were displayed prior to said user invocation on an enlarged area of the display screen, said enlarged area of the display screen covering substantially the entire display screen; and (c) interrupting the displaying of the stream of display messages on the display screen upon non-idle activity by the user or the cellular telecommunications network, and displaying a non-idle activity-specific screen on at least said second portion of the display screen.