Patent ID: 8825036

Claim:
A child telecommunications device, comprising: an interactive user interface that offers activities to a user of the child telecommunications device; the child telecommunications device being configured to perform actions comprising: receiving remote configuration information that indicates the activities that are to be available on the child telecommunications device, the indicated activities designating allowed executable applications, allowed communication contacts, and allowed content; adding the indicated activities to the interactive user interface in response to receiving the remote configuration information; and removing activities designating communication contacts from the interactive user interface if the communication contacts are not included in the allowed communication contacts of the remote configuration information, wherein the remote configuration information includes a list of allowable applications and content that is preconfigured by a service provider such that a user of a parent device specifies additional descriptive or limiting information to said list to create the remote configuration information received by the child telecommunications device, the allowable applications and content comprising applications and content that are created by the service provider and enable the child telecommunications device to communicate with the parent telecommunications device.