Patent ID: 8595649

Claim:
A system comprising: a data store for maintaining a subset of contacts selected at least in part by a user of a communications device, wherein the subset of user contacts includes a portion of a set of contacts accessible by the communications device and wherein the subset of contacts includes a plurality of contacts; a user interface component, implemented by executing instructions on a processor, the user interface component operative to: cause the generation of a first display on the communications device without initiating a user contact application for accessing the set of contacts accessible by the communications device, wherein the first display includes a graphical identifier associated with each contact of the subset of contacts; identify a first message event associated with the user and a first contact from the subset of contacts; identify a second message event associated with the user and a second contact from the subset of contacts, wherein the second message event corresponds to a different type of message event than the first message event; and cause the generation of an updated display on the communications device without initiating a user contact application for accessing the set of contacts accessible by the communication device, wherein the updated display includes the graphical identifiers associated with the subset of contacts presented in the first display; a first message event indicator positioned adjacent to the graphical identifier associated with the first contact from the subset of contacts; and a second message event indicator positioned adjacent to the graphical identifier associated with the second contact from the subset of contacts, wherein the first message event indicator corresponds to the first message event and the second message event indicator corresponds to the second message event, wherein the first message event indicator and the second message event indicator are different, wherein the first display and the updated display are caused to be presented on the communications device in one of a home page screen and an idle screen; wherein the first and second status events include mood information associated with the first and second contacts respectively; and wherein the mood information is determined as a function of a frequency of communication between the user and the respective contact.