Patent ID: 8578297

Claim:
A method of browsing a set of media items in a graphical user interface represented on a display device, said method comprising the steps of: (a) displaying a sequence of thumbnails each corresponding to a media item of a portion of said set, said sequence being displayed around a preview region in a looping arrangement, the displayed sequence having a thumbnail insertion position that moves relative to a focus position, said focus position defining a focus media item of the set, wherein said focus media item is displayed in said preview region; (b) displaying a further thumbnail in said preview region, said further thumbnail corresponding to a first thumbnail currently in the focus position, without displaying said first thumbnail in said focus position; (c) responding to scrolling action of a user of said graphical user interface by: (i) advancing said focus position within the sequence from said first thumbnail to an adjacent second thumbnail in a scrolling direction associated with the scrolling action; (ii) removing from the display a third thumbnail that is immediately ahead of said insertion position in the scrolling direction; (iii) inserting and displaying in the sequence a fourth thumbnail ahead of said insertion position in the scrolling direction wherein said fourth thumbnail is next to the thumbnail immediately behind said insertion position in said sequence of thumbnails, said fourth thumbnail corresponding to a media item of said set not in the displayed sequence prior to the scrolling action; (iv) advancing said insertion position to a position just before said inserted fourth thumbnail; and (v) displaying a representation corresponding to the media item that corresponds to said second thumbnail in said preview region, having swapped said second thumbnail with said first thumbnail; wherein steps (i) to (v) are performed while maintaining positions of the remaining thumbnails of the displayed sequence on the display.