Abstract: Sending complex graphics to personal communication devices conventionally occupies valuable transmission time since the entire page description has to be sent whenever a display page has to be described or updated. This invention teaches storing those graphics in the memory of the device. A much shorter code, identifying database locations, can be sent as the data defining a page to be displayed and the relevant display page constructed, when selected by a user for display, by calling up the graphical elements from those locations in the memory. By embedding references to already stored graphics in the data transmission, substantial flexibility and air time economy is achieved.