Abstract: A wireless mobile phone is provided with the capability to visually convey various information to users, using a number of light emitting devcies (LEDs). The information may include notification of an incoming call, text messages of a call (in Morse code representations), complementary graphics for non-graphics contents, and visual representations of attributes of sound. In various embodiments, the implementations may include a visualization controller to selectively activate and deactivate the LEDs, and applicable ones of an event, text and sound visualization clients. In various embodiments, all or selected combinations of the elements may be part of the base unit of the wireless mobile phone, while the remaining elements, if any, may be part of an interchangeable face plate or a covering skin.

Abstract: An automated method including automatic conditional provisioning of replacement and/or additional information display for assisting a user of the client system in retrieving and browsing information is disclosed. Under the method, in response to the retrieval and display on a display of a client system a first information page, the assistance display is conditionally provided automatically. The automatic conditional provisioning is based at least in part on the locator of the first information page, employing a number of locator based conditions. In one embodiment, the locator based conditions are URL patterns specifying families of URLs. In one embodiment, the replacement/additional information pages may contain identifiers/locators for related information pages.