Patent ID: 8732184

Claim:
A method of displaying a plurality of items at a remote location, the method comprising: storing a display control dimension which is indicative of a quantity of items which are simultaneously displayable at the remote location; storing a threshold value which is indicative of a quantity of items which is greater than the quantity of items which are simultaneously displayable at the remote location; storing the plurality of items; determining a quantity associated with the plurality of items; receiving a request for data representing the plurality of items from the remote location; determining a relationship value indicative of a relationship between the display control dimension and the quantity associated with the plurality of items; comparing the relationship value to the threshold value; conditioned on the relationship value exceeding the threshold value, sending the data representing the plurality of items to the remote location for display; and conditioned on the relationship value not exceeding the threshold value, sending a subset of the data representing the plurality of items to the remote location for display.