Patent ID: 8910068

Claim:
A method performed by a portable terminal, the method comprising: displaying one or more scrollable items in a foreground of a screen; appointing a particular item when a first touch event is performed on the particular item; responsive to a touch drag as a second touch event performed on the appointed item continuously from the first touch event, and within a range in which item scrolling does not occur, outputting, during progression of the touch drag, at least one of text information, icon information, and image information in a background of the screen in an area where the touch drag has progressed, and executing a user function in response to the touch drag as the second touch event progressing beyond a threshold, without receiving another touch action; and changing at least one of a color and a shape of an image corresponding to the appointed item according to the occurrence of the first touch event or the second touch event; wherein the at least one of the text information, icon information, and image information describes the user function.