Patent ID: 8150426

Claim:
A cellular telecommunications method including a) Receiving a plurality of individual, interactive display messages by a personal cellular telecommunications device without any action by a user of said device, said device having a display screen that normally displays an idle screen, and each interactive message having mostly different content from the other plurality of interactive display messages and enabling a user of said device to activate a point to point transmission response mechanism; b) Temporarily storing each of said received interactive display messages in a dynamic storage buffer contained in said telecommunications device; c) Checking that at least some display messages are complete before being displayed; d) If an idle screen is being displayed, streaming individual ones of said stored complete display messages from said dynamic storage buffer for display on at least a portion of said display screen without any user action being required; e) Interrupting said displaying of said streaming display message to display a non-idle activity specific screen; and f) Automatically discarding display messages from said dynamic storage buffer in accordance with a display message discard scheme irrespective of a display message having been displayed on the display screen or not, wherein for at least some display messages, an out-of-date display message is automatically and silently discarded if it satisfies the condition that T CLOCK -T RECEIVE >T DISCARD where T CLOCK is the clock time of the personal cellular telecommunications device, T RECEIVE is the time of receipt of the display message at the personal cellular telecommunications device, and T DISCARD is a predetermined time interval.