T-mobile Usa, Inc.

Marianna Wickman

Michael Kemery

Winston Wang

Feridoon Malekzadeh

Jennifer Amy Sadler

Valerie Lynn Goulart

William D Webb, Ii

Jesse S Madsen

Randy Meyerson

William D Webb

Techniques for sharing book reading experiences between users of different telecommunications devices are described herein.

Shared book reading

Techniques for remotely establishing sequences of content to be enabled on a child device are described herein.

Parent-controlled episodic content on a child telecommunication device

A parent telecommunications device may assign chores to an activity-based child device and unlock functionality on the child device when a one or more chores is completed. The child device creates a graphical menu showing a chore list including the chores received from the parent device. The child device recognizes chores as completed based on an indication received from the user of the child device, the user of the parent device, or both.

Chore and rewards tracker

A mobile device is configured to operate in at least three modes that provide increased functionality, increased power consumption, and/or increased user input/output. In one example, the mobile device includes a first mode where some electrical components are powered down, and a secondary display may provide some information to a user. In a second mode, a primary display is energized and an audio mode is initially activated. A third mode provides full or nearly full functionality and/or user input/output.

Multifunction mobile device having a movable element, such as a display, and associated functions

A secondary display system on a mobile device to allow a user to check the status of mobile device services without having to turn on or otherwise rely upon the primary display of the mobile device. The secondary display presents a count of messages that are waiting to be accessed by the mobile device user. When a new message is received for the user, a summary of the message is displayed to the mobile device user. When a user accesses one of the waiting messages, the count of unopened messages is decremented. The secondary display system may perform queue management to ensure that only counts of recently received messages are displayed. The secondary display system may offer different status modes to highlight the status of different mobile device services or states. The secondary display system may also allow a user to respond to a received message in a limited manner.

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Marianna Wickman