Patent ID: 7093201

Claim:
A data processing device, comprising: a display having a screen; a machine-readable medium; a plurality of computer files in said machine-readable medium and accessible by said data processing device; and a graphical user interface displayed on said screen, comprising: a plurality of identifiers and/or identifier pointers, each identifier and/or identifier pointer related to one or more of said plurality of computer files for use by said data processing device; a selection indicator to select one or more of said identifiers and/or identifier pointers; a curved listing of said plurality of identifiers and/or identifier pointers, wherein: only a portion of said curved listing is displayed on said screen at any given time; and the plane defined by said curved listing is slanted or parallel in relation to the plane defined by said display; wherein the selection indicator remains in a consistent position on the display and wherein, responsive to user input, the curved listing is visually rotated through the selection indicator one icon at a time, thereby causing the identifiers and/or identifier pointers which visually coincide with the selection indicator to become capable of being selected in response to additional user input; and a preview window to display information associated with a file related to an identifier and/or identifier pointer, said identifier and/or identifier pointer being selected by said selection indicator in said curved listing, said preview window displayed concurrently with said portion of said curved listing.