USER INTERACTION TECHNOLOGY FOR MANAGING SOFTWARE AND APPLICATION ASSOCIATED ACTIVITES ON ELECTRONIC DEVICES

摘要

The invention pertains to specialized software code that is incorporated within one or more subject software applications resident on an electronic device where the subject software application's icon represented visually on the device's display changes its visual properties to communicate changes to the user of such device as and when one or more of the functionalities, capabilities, and/or other characteristics of the subject software application therein have changed, whether by design, change circumstance, or per the instruction of a third party (e.g., the subject application software provider, device provider, or bandwidth provider).