Patent ID: 8799817

Claim:
For use in a touchscreen enabled device, a method comprising: displaying multiple previously navigated objects in a reference region of a carousel interface, the previously navigated objects including a most-recently navigated object; displaying a plurality of objects in a selection region of a carousel belt region of the carousel interface that wraps around one end of the reference region, the displayed objects in the carousel belt region associated with the most-recently navigated object; circulating objects in the selection region through a variable linear scrolling region connected to the selection region; receiving a user input for selecting one of the objects in the carousel interface; and in response to the user input, navigating to the selected object and updating the carousel interface with the selected object as the most-recently navigated object in the reference region; wherein the most-recently navigated object in the reference region covers and obscures at least a portion of at least one other previously navigated object in the reference region.