Patent ID: 7752564

Claim:
A method for navigating options within a user interface, comprising: providing a first set of cards, each card graphically representing a single available option from one of a plurality of option types; providing a user interface including a focus area intersected by a first axis; displaying a set of cards representing filters along the first axis, each filter corresponding to a respective one of the plurality of option types; receiving a selection of a filter in response to a user scrolling the set of filter cards along the first axis to align a corresponding filter card with the focus area; filtering the first set of cards according to the selected filter to produce a second set of cards, the second set of cards only including cards representing the type of option corresponding to the selected filter; displaying at least a subset of the second set of cards along a second axis that is perpendicular to the first axis, one card being displayable within the focus area; receiving a selection of a second filter in response to a user scrolling the set of filter cards along the first axis to align a second corresponding filter card with the focus area; filtering the first set of cards to produce a third set of cards, wherein each of the cards in the third set differs in type from each of the cards in the second set; and displaying at least a subset of the third set of cards along the second axis.