Patent ID: 7719548

Claim:
A method for viewing, on a portion of a display, a sequence of items, the method comprising: displaying on the portion of the display, in a scrollable sequence, one or more items from the sequence of items; receiving user input to perform a scroll operation to scroll through the sequence of items; in response to receiving the user input: determining that the scroll operation will cause a particular item, which was not displayed on the portion of the display prior to receiving the user input, to be displayed on the portion of the display; determining whether the particular item is an end item, wherein an end item is an item that is at either end of the sequence of items; if the particular item is an end item, then displaying the particular item without a visual indicator; and if the particular item is not an end item, then displaying the particular item with the visual indicator; wherein the steps of receiving, determining, and displaying are performed by a computing device.