Sprint Communications Comapny L.p.

Jeffrey S Callan

Dhananjay Indurkar

David K Fultz

Nathan M Schwermann

The system comprises a mobile device comprising an application and a display screen, wherein the display screen displays a previously inserted program icon at a display screen location. The application, when executed, identifies the receipt of a virtual pre-load pack by the mobile device, compares the virtual pre-load pack template with a current display screen template, identifies that the proposed display screen location of the virtual pre-load program icon overlaps with the display screen location of a previously inserted program icon, locates and selects an unoccupied display screen location for the insertion of the virtual pre-load program icon and inserts the virtual pre-load program icon in the unoccupied display screen location on the display screen without overlapping the display of the virtual pre-load program icon with the display of the previously inserted program icon and without violating a display screen insertion priority level.

System and method for inserting additional icon content into a display screen

A mobile communication device. The device comprises a radio transceiver to communicatively couple the mobile communication device to a radio access network by a wireless communication link and a service pack. The device further comprises an application, as a component of the service pack, stored in the memory that, when executed by the processor at initial setup of the mobile communication device, determines whether a customization package exists on the mobile communication device, and if no customization package is present on the mobile communication device, selects a customization package from a pool of customization packages on a server based on predefined rules and downloads the selected customization package to the mobile communication device through any available communication link, wherein at least part of the selected customization package is downloaded through an alternative communication link other than an activation channel when the selected customization package is oversized for the activation channel.

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Overland Park, KS, United States of America

Jeffrey S Callan