Blackberry Corporation

Suzanne Abellera

Ankur Aggarwal

Li Fu Chen

Robert Felice Mori

Robert Mori

Jasjit Singh

Carol C Wu

Cipson Jose Chiriyankandath

Shakila Shahul Hameed

Paxton Ronald Cooper

Li Chen

Methods and apparatus for providing updated content in a user interface are disclosed. An example method for providing a user interface includes receiving at a portable electronic device an icon configuration file, installing an icon associated with the configuration file in an icon repository on a portable electronic device, displaying the icon with first content in a user interface on the portable electronic device, receiving second content based on the configuration file, and displaying the icon with the second content in the user interface.

Methods and apparatus for providing updated content in a user interface

A method and communication device for determining contextual information is provided. Textual information is received from at least one of an input device and a communication interface at the communication device. The textual information is processed to automatically extract contextual data embedded in the textual information in response to the receiving. Supplementary contextual data is automatically retrieved based on the contextual data from a remote data source via the communication interface in response to the processing. The supplementary contextual data is automatically rendered at the display device in association with the contextual data in response to receiving the supplementary contextual data.

Communication device for determining contextual information

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Palo Alto, CA, United States of America

Suzanne Abellera