Patent ID: 8250277

Claim:
A computer-implemented method comprising: determining that a mobile computing device has electrically coupled by physical contact with a docking system that is adapted to supply electrical power for charging the mobile computing device; determining that the docking system is a first type of docking system from a plurality of types of docking systems; selecting a first user interface profile that corresponds to the first type of docking system from among a plurality of user interface profiles, each of the plurality of user interface profiles corresponding to a respective type of docking system from the plurality of types of docking systems; and presenting, by the mobile computing device for display, the first user interface profile in response to selecting the first user interface profile; wherein the first user interface profile includes displaying a desktop background display that changes at least in part based on a geographical position of the mobile computing device, and wherein a desktop background display is a display that is presented as a backdrop to multiple graphical interface elements that, when selected, each invoke a respective application program from a plurality of application programs; wherein another user interface profile from the plurality of user interface profiles includes a display of a desktop background display that does not change based at least in part on the geographical position of the mobile computing device; wherein the first user interface profile specifies a first combination of graphical interface elements to which the desktop background display of the first user interface profile is presented as a backdrop; wherein the other user interface profile specifies a second combination of graphical interface elements to which the desktop background display of the other user interface profile is presented as a backdrop; wherein the first combination of graphical interface elements is different than the second combination of graphical interface elements.