Patent ID: 7343567

Claim:
A method in a computing system for a user interaction scheme, comprising: configuring a sidebar of a predetermined display size to provide dynamic content that is updated automatically; hosting a first group of tiles within the sidebar to display at least part of the dynamic content; in response to an automatic update of the dynamic content, providing for the addition of one or more tiles to said sidebar to display additional content produced by the update, resulting in a second group of tiles; determining a total display area of the second group of tiles based on default tile sizes; determining an available display area of the sidebar based on the predetermined display size; comparing the total display area to the available display area; and when the comparison indicates that the total display area exceeds the available display area, performing the following: shrinking said second group of tiles to fit within said sidebar; and automatically removing one or more tiles from the second group of tiles in said sidebar so that a remainder of tiles in the second group of tiles is displayable at respective default tile sizes in said sidebar while maintaining the sidebar at the predetermined display size, wherein the second group of tiles is displayed in a shrunken state prior to the automatic removal of the one or more tiles.