Patent ID: 7555257

Claim:
A method for receiving, displaying and interacting with channel content on a mobile electronic device, comprising: receiving channel content encoded on a communication signal that is automatically broadcast to many electronic devices at the same time, wherein the channel content is related to at least one of news channel content and stocks channel content; wherein the channel content is not personalized when it is broadcast; wherein the channel content is received as records; storing at least a portion of the channel content on the electronic device; associating the channel content with at least one of a stock channel application and a news channel application on the electronic device; filtering the channel content based on pre-defined preferences; wherein the pre-defined user preferences are used to select stock indices to track and individual stocks to track for the stocks channel content and types of news for the news channel content on the mobile electronic device; wherein the filtering is automatically performed on the electronic device after the channel content has been received on the electronic device and wherein the filtering creates personalized content on the electronic device by enhancing the filtered content with additional content that is stored on the mobile electronic device; decoding the received records using the channel application; wherein decoding the received records includes associating an index value with an expanded name when one of the records is encoded as an index; wherein stock names are encoded as an index; setting a current view associated with the channel; and displaying the current view on a display of the electronic device.