Patent ID: 7954068

Claim:
A computer implemented method comprising: displaying a slave region in a Graphical User Interface (GUI), said slave region displaying a current state and having previously displayed a previous state; displaying a master region in said GUI, said master region displaying at least a portion of the previous state of the slave region, said master region concurrently displayed on said GUI with said slave region; upon detecting a selection of content in said slave region, displaying a visually perceptible transition that concurrently reveals (i) a new master region and (ii) a new slave region, the visually perceptible transition gradually revealing said new master region as said master region recedes from view in the GUI, the visually perceptible transition gradually revealing said new slave region as said slave region recedes from view in the GUI; and upon completion of said visually perceptible transition, concurrently displaying said new master region and said new slave region in said GUI, said new master region displaying at least a portion of the current state that was displayed by said slave region prior to the selection of content, said new slave region displaying at least some new content based on the selection of content.