Patent ID: 8291349

Claim:
A method comprising: generating for display, in a graphical user interface (GUI) of a computing device, a browsing view comprising browsing content, wherein the browsing content includes one or more media objects that are displayable in the browsing view; receiving, using a presence-sensitive screen of the computing device, user input comprising one or more gestures to select at least one media object of the one or more media objects; responsive to receiving the user input, determining an input operation that corresponds to the user input, wherein the input operation selects a quantity of metadata associated with the at least one selected media object, wherein the metadata comprises information that describes the at least one selected media object, and wherein the quantity of the metadata is proportional to a magnitude of the one or more gestures to select the at least one media object; and generating for display, in an expanded view of the GUI that includes the browsing view, the metadata associated with the at least one selected media object, wherein the expanded view is generated for display without changing the browsing content in the browsing view of the GUI.