Patent ID: 8345600

Claim:
A method comprising: receiving, at a first terminal, a plurality of event indications which indicate respective events, each of the event indications being received at a different time; and based on the event indications, refreshing a user interface of the first terminal to reflect each of the respective events the refreshing comprising determining a plurality of time periods, and during each of said time periods postponing the user interface from being refreshed to reflect any outstanding ones of said event indications until that time period has elapsed, and a length of each of said time periods determined based on a timing of the receipt of one or more of said event indications, the length of a later of said time periods being set to an increased value relative to an earlier of said time periods in response to receiving at least a predetermined number of said event indications within a time limit, and the length of the later of said time periods being reset to a lower value in response to receiving fewer than the predetermined number of said event indications within the time limit.