Patent ID: 8763058

Claim:
A computer-implemented method, comprising: receiving, on a computing device, initial input corresponding to a request to browse media files having corresponding text metadata and graphical metadata, wherein the text metadata and the graphical metadata are stored in different storage locations, wherein the media files are associated with references to the different storage locations, wherein the graphical metadata is image metadata representing the corresponding media files, and wherein the text metadata is a description of content of the corresponding media files; automatically determining the graphical metadata and the textual metadata corresponding to each of an initial subset of the media files to be presented on a display of the computing device; automatically retrieving and presenting the determined graphical metadata and the determined text metadata corresponding to the initial subset of the media files on the display, wherein the determined graphical metadata and the determined text metadata are retrieved from the different storage locations using the references associated with the initial subset of the media files; receiving scrolling input corresponding to scrolling through the media files; presenting the retrieved text metadata and default graphic data corresponding to the scrolled media files, wherein the retrieved text metadata and the default graphic data are presented on the display of the computing device while the scrolling input is received; determining that the scrolling input has stopped; determining a further subset of the media files having the corresponding retrieved text metadata that is presented on the display when the scrolling input has stopped; determining the graphical metadata corresponding to the further subset of the media files; and retrieving and presenting the determined graphical metadata corresponding to the further subset of the media files on the display, wherein the presenting includes replacing the default graphic data with the determined graphical metadata corresponding to the further subset of the media files.