This Apple patent lists Steve Jobs as an inventor and is directed towards account information display for portable communication device. Mr. Jobs was awarded U.S. Patent 7650137 entitled “Account information display for portable communication device” on January 19, 2010. The utility patent has been cited 186 times by other U.S. patents in the field of telecommunications and in other fields.

A portable communication device includes a display and a processor coupled to the display. The processor is configured to automatically and repeatedly present an updated account usage metric for an account associated with usage of the portable communication device. In some embodiments, the presented account usage metric is an account balance associated with usage of the portable communication device, and the processor automatically and repeatedly presents an updated account balance on the display. Link: U.S. Patent 7650137

Apple filed this utility patent on December 23, 2005 giving it a processing time of 1488 days (compared to an average processing time of 1613 in the field). They have a total number of 15027 patents. The first named inventor is Steve P. Jobs of Palo Alto, CA. The patent was allowed by assistant examiner Dung Lam and primary examiner Vincent P Harper.

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