Patent ID: 8893015

Claim:
A method for navigating loaded media, the method comprising: loading a page of a collage document to a client device, the page having a plurality of layers, each layer being associated with a media object; creating a list of layers of the loaded page, each layer indexed by at least a position in the collage document; specifying a visual window of layers per page of the collage document; navigating the collage document in at least one direction and at least one speed based on user input; filtering the list of layers based on at least the position in the collage document and the visual window of a user interface, wherein a user separately specifies a maximum number of layers within the visual window and a maximum number of layers per page of the collage document to control bandwidth when loading the collage document; and displaying visible layers of the page within the visual window as the user navigates layers of the loaded page into and out of the visual window, wherein a number of the visible layers within the visual window is less than a number of the layers in a corresponding page of the collage document.