Patent ID: 7487459

Claim:
A method for navigating options within a user interface, comprising: providing a first sequence of cards, each card graphically representing an available option from one of a plurality of option types; providing a user interface including a focus area intersected by a first axis and a second axis, the first axis being perpendicular to the second axis; displaying a set of cards representing filters along the second axis, each filter corresponding to a respective one of the plurality of option types; receiving a selection of a filter in response to a user scrolling the set of filter cards along the second axis to align a corresponding filter card with the focus area; filtering the first sequence of cards according to the selected filter to produce a second sequence of cards, the second sequence of cards only including cards representing the type of option corresponding to the selected filter; and displaying at least a subset of the second sequence of cards along the first axis, one card being displayable within the focus area.