Patent ID: 7865643

Claim:
A method of communicating a plurality of messages that are arranged in a determined order to a user of a first device, the plurality of messages including in the determined order a first message, a second message, a next to last message and a last message, the method comprising acts of: storing, in the first device, the first message and the last message of the plurality of messages; presenting a third message to the user of the first device; receiving a navigational command input by the user of the first device; presenting, responsive to the navigational command indicating a first direction, the first message to the user of the first device, requesting the second message from a second device, and storing the second message in the first device; and presenting, responsive to the navigational command indicating a second direction opposite to the first direction, the last message to the user of the first device, requesting the next to last message from the second device, and storing the next to last message in the first device.