Patent ID: 7240296

Claim:
In a computer system having a graphical user interface and a user interface selection device, a method of providing the user interface for selection therefrom, comprising: automatically maintaining a sequence of places visited with the computer system by a user, the sequence including places visited by a plurality of different applications, where the sequence is maintained by automatically adding the places to the sequence when the user visits the places, where the maintaining is performed such that multiple places visited using a same application can exist in the sequence, and where the places in the sequence are ordered according to the order in which they are visited; while displaying a first place corresponding to a first application of the plurality of applications, providing a first selection mechanism associated with the automatically maintained sequence of places visited on the computer system by the user; and in response to a user-input selection via the first selection mechanism, navigating from the first place corresponding to the first application to a second place corresponding to a second application of the plurality of different applications, wherein the first application and the second application are adjacent applications in the sequence, and wherein different types of documents visited by a same application are added to the sequence of places, and wherein types of places that can be added, if visited, also includes different user-activatable commands of the application and different documents opened by the application.