Patent ID: 8806376

Claim:
A method of displaying a list of favorites on a display screen of a mobile communication device, the method comprising: accessing a website in response to a user command; displaying a web page of the accessed website on the display screen; receiving a first user input for registering the web page in the list of favorites; registering the web page in the list of favorites in response to the first user input; acquiring a thumbnail image from at least a portion of content of the displayed web page; storing the acquired thumbnail image along with a uniform resource locator (URL) address of the web page corresponding to the thumbnail image in a memory of the mobile communication device; displaying a plurality of thumbnail images each corresponding to one of a plurality of web pages registered in the list of favorites on the display screen when the list of favorites is retrieved in response to a first request; receiving a second user input pointing to one of the plurality of thumbnail images displayed on the display screen; in response to the second user input, displaying a pointer on the display screen and moving the displayed pointer on the display screen; selecting one of the plurality of thumbnail images by locating the pointer on an area of a desired thumbnail image according to a movement of the pointer; displaying an enlarged view of the selected one of the plurality of thumbnail images on the display screen while the pointer is located on the area of the desired thumbnail image, wherein the enlarged view of the selected thumbnail image is displayed overlaying the selected thumbnail image and at least part of other thumbnail images; receiving a third user input for selecting one of the plurality of thumbnail images by recognizing sensory touching of the selected one of the plurality of thumbnail images; accessing a web page corresponding to the selected one of the plurality of thumbnail images and displaying, on an entire area of the display screen, content of the accessed web page in response to the third user input; and automatically updating the selected one of the plurality of thumbnail images by acquiring and storing an image from the displayed content of the accessed web page, wherein the plurality of web pages registered in the list of favorites is displayed as one of a text format and a thumbnail image format according to a user setting.