Patent ID: 7958456

Claim:
A computer-implemented method, comprising: determining movement of a point of contact by a user on a touch-sensitive display; scrolling through a list of information items on the touch-sensitive display in response to the movement, the list of information items including a sequence of information item subsets corresponding to a sequence of index symbols, the sequence of information item subsets including at least one subset containing two or more information items; and while scrolling through respective information subsets, displaying in conjunction with each respective information item subset a corresponding index symbol, wherein the corresponding index symbol moves on the touch-sensitive display in accordance with the respective information item subset, and wherein moving the corresponding index symbol on the touch-sensitive display in accordance with the respective information item subset includes: in response to an upward swipe on the touch-sensitive display, moving an index symbol upward from a lower edge of a window to an upper edge of the window and maintaining display of the index symbol at the upper edge of the window adjacent to a first displayed item of the corresponding information item subset as the corresponding information item subset scrolls until an end of a corresponding information item subset is reached when the respective information item subset contains two or more information items.