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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 24, 2010
Filed:
Sep. 23, 2005
Bharat Welingkar, Los Altos, CA (US);
Bharat Welingkar, Los Altos, CA (US);
Palm, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Abstract
Techniques are disclosed for a content-based navigation and launching for portable computing devices such as PDAs and smart phones. A content navigator and launcher allows a user to personalize content groupings. The techniques can run on top of any OS file system that has a mechanism to associate files with their creating applications. Personalization of the content-based navigation and launching scheme can be set-up on the user's work station, and then transmitted and synchronized with a target mobile device. A central server can be used to carry out content harvesting and/or configuring the personalization scheme. The content and/or personalization scheme can then be pushed on to the mobile device (e.g., via a GSM network or other suitable communication link). APIs can be used by application vendors to register the content types of their own choice. A preferences utility allows users to manage the content types and associations.