Patent ID: 8347104

Claim:
A method of controlling user access to data on a mobile telecommunication device, the mobile telecommunication device having a wireless transceiver for receiving and transmitting data, a user interface including a display and a memory coupled to the user interface for storing secure data and non-secure data received via the wireless transceiver, the method comprising the steps of: periodically receiving at the mobile telecommunication device, non-secure data and secure data from one or more data sources via a wireless network; distinguishing received non-secure data from received secure data; segmenting the display of the user interface into a status area and a security interface area; automatically displaying on the mobile telecommunication device, the received non-secure data on the security interface area without authenticating user access to the non-secure data; while displaying the non-secure data, automatically displaying an indication that secure data has been received from the one or more data sources on the status area without authenticating user access to the secure data; subsequent to displaying the indication, while displaying the non-secure data, authenticating, at the security interface area, user access to the secure data in response to an authentication request; selectively displaying on the mobile telecommunication device the secure data on the display of the user interface in response to successful authentication; redisplaying on the mobile telecommunication device the non-secure data on the display of the user interface following expiration of an inactivity time period such that the secure data is no longer displayed on the display; and selectively displaying on the mobile telecommunication device additional non-secure data that is related to the previously displayed non-secure data, the displaying of the additional non-secure data occurring in response to transmission of a user request for the additional non-secure data to a data source via the wireless transceiver.