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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 04, 2009
Filed:
Feb. 02, 2005
Bruce Jay Levin, San Jose, CA (US);
William G. Swinton, Santa Cruz, CA (US);
Bruce Jay Levin, San Jose, CA (US);
William G. Swinton, Santa Cruz, CA (US);
LightSurf Technologies, Inc., Santa Cruz, CA (US);
Abstract
A method and apparatus for the delivery, administration and application of themes to a cellular telephone device. The apparatus, in one embodiment, comprises an inbox to receive a multimedia message (MM) containing a theme, a filing logic to place the MM in a themes folder, a themes folder available to the user to browse the theme MMs, and a client-side application to apply the theme to the user's cellular telephone device. In one embodiment, the apparatus includes notification logic to notify a web page associated with the user to change its display to match the theme applied by the user to the cellular telephone device.