Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

T-mobile Usa, Inc.

Joyce S Chou

Chad Michael Roberts

Dawn Wilson

Liang Jeff Chen

Juan Dai

Priyanka Singhal

Anthony J Giardini

Andrea Small

Jae Y Lee

Jeremy Monroe Bowen

Josh Phillips

Ryan Wolfe

Jeffery G Arnold

Michael Steffen Vance

Gabriel J White

Jared T Benson

Shilpa R Shah

Christian Robertson

Megan Galbraith Donahue

Sinclair M Temple

Prarthana H Panchal

Natalie Phillips-Hamblett

John W Michael

Jonathan Richard Bergstrom

Display screen with graphical user interface

An interactive electronic device shell and light source may enable personalization and increased functionality of an electronic device. The shell may at least partially cover a light source and attach to an electronic device. The shell includes at least some transparent or translucent portions (e.g., light stencils) that enable light from a matrix of the light source to emit through the shell, thus causing a display of light from the shell. In some aspects, the electronic device may be linked with the shell and/or the light source to control light emission through the shell. In various aspects, an illumined portion of the shell may have significance, such as revealing an artistic design or indicating a message based on activity of the electronic device.

Interactive electronic device shell

Element mapping to control illumination of a device shell

In some aspects, a telecommunications device obtains an identifier from an accessory token. The telecommunications device may transmit the identifier to a server to request content associated with the identifier. The telecommunications device may receive the content from the server when the identifier is valid and/or the content is available. In various aspects, the accessory token is communicatively coupled to the telecommunications device, which enables the telecommunications device to obtain the identifier.

Accessory based data distribution

A user of a telecommunications or other computing device may notify his or her contacts of an event of interest, which event may be modified by the user's contacts without requiring the permission of the originating user to do so. In this regard, an event organizing service receives an event notification request from a user of a telecommunications device (e.g., a mobile telephone), automatically identifies the user's contacts to whom the event notification is to be published, and publishes the event notification to the automatically identified contacts. A contact who receives the event notification may update the event, e.g., by modifying data describing the event, without the permission of the originating user. Accordingly, a contact who has received the event notification may modify the event (e.g., change the date/time, change the location, etc.) and the event organizing service may publish a notification for the updated event to the originating user and his or her contacts informing them of the modification. It will be appreciated that as updates to the event are made by the user's contacts (and in some cases the user herself), the event is ultimately organized by the user's social network or community without requiring the user to organize the details of or manage the event herself.

Event notification and organization utilizing a communication network

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Joyce S Chou