Patent ID: 8856684

Claim:
A method of browsing a set of items on a display device via scrolling, the method comprising steps of: displaying on the display device a plurality of items of the set of items in a first arrangement for browsing, the first arrangement displaying the plurality of items in at least one line and being associated with a current scrolling direction and a current scrolling speed; receiving, associated with the first arrangement, a scrolling instruction associated with an increased scrolling speed relative to the current scrolling speed and the current scrolling direction to scroll the set of items; and changing a display configuration of the set of items from the first arrangement to a second arrangement in response to the received scrolling instruction, to scroll the set of items at the current scrolling speed instead of the increased scrolling speed, such that, in the second arrangement, a number of lines in which items of the set of items are displayed is increased compared to the first arrangement, the number of lines being increased in a direction orthogonal to the current scrolling direction while maintaining a size of the displayed items, to thereby display more items of the set of items in the second arrangement than in the first arrangement, each of the lines in the second arrangement having a plurality of items of the set of items and being scrolled at the current scrolling speed and in the current scrolling direction, such that the changing step causes a bandwidth of the second arrangement to be higher than a bandwidth of the first arrangement to allow a user to scroll through more items of the set of items in a shorter time without a need to increase the current scrolling speed.