Patent ID: 8397180

Claim:
A display interface for scrolling items of a collection, each item having a corresponding individual position in the collection, said interface comprising at least a processor, memory and a display unit that cooperate to display: a focus display location at which a focus item is displayable, the focus item being one item of the collection; and first and second 2-dimensional repeating arrangements of the items spatially separated by the focus display location, the first arrangement preceding the focus display location in a direction of scroll and the second arrangement following the focus display location in the direction of scroll, each arrangement including a plurality of standard display locations at which a plural number of items of the collection are displayable adjacent the focus display location, wherein a first scroll instruction of the collection causes a first one of the items to depart a corresponding first standard display location in the first arrangement adjacent to the focus display location and to occupy the focus display location as the focus item, wherein an immediately following scroll instruction of the collection causes that first item to depart the focus location and to occupy, in the second arrangement adjacent to the focus display location, a standard display location corresponding to the first standard display location occupied by that first item in the first arrangement, such that as a consequence of the scroll instructions, each item progressively occupies the same relative position in the second arrangement as that occupied by the item in the first arrangement, having departed the focus display location, and wherein the immediately following scroll instruction causes a second item, immediately following the first item in the collection, to depart its standard display location in the first arrangement and to occupy the focus location as the focus item, such that the standard display location of the second item in the first arrangement becomes empty, while any items present at others of the standard display locations in the first arrangement remain where they are.