| 摘要 |
One embodiment is concerned with the receipt of unsolicited content, such as advertisement messages, but also including other data, such as network control data, warning messages, or the like, at an apparatus, and also how such unsolicited content is displayed to the user of the apparatus. For example, the unsolicited content may be combined with or replace an image being displayed. Here, a dedicated logical channel is provided for the communication of unsolicited content, and which terminates within the apparatus at a module provided for the task in the apparatus operating system. The channel links into the operating system of the apparatus, rather than a receiving application, as the OS is trusted, and can control other applications miming on the apparatus to accommodate the received advert. For example, the operating system can change the display of other applications that are running on the apparatus, to provide display space for a received advert. Another embodiment relates to how received unsolicited content is combined and displayed on the display of the apparatus. In particular, the existing display is adapted by shrinking the display in one or both of the horizontal and/or vertical directions, so as to make room for the received content. In this way, both the received content and the existing display can be combined and shown simultaneously, without one obscuring the other.
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