Patent ID: 7107532
Filing Date: 2006-09-12
Classification: G06F,H04N

Abstract:
1. A method for navigation of a plurality of options within a user interface, the method comprising: scrolling only visual cards from a first sequence of visual cards representing a first type of option through a spatially-fixed focus area of the user interface, wherein the visual cards of the first sequence are both aligned with and scrolled along a first axis; enabling scrolling of a particular visual card of the first sequence of visual cards into the focus area; and scrolling only visual cards from a second sequence of visual cards representing a second type of option through the focus area, wherein the visual cards of the second sequence are both aligned with and scrolled along a second axis, wherein the first axis is perpendicular to the second axis such that the respective visual cards from the first and second sequences are scrolled into the focus area from perpendicular directions, and wherein no visual card of the first sequence is also included in the second sequence.