Patent ID: 8504935

Claim:
A computing device-implemented method comprising: displaying, on a screen of the computing device and prior to user activation of a menu icon, the menu icon and a first group of application icons, the menu icon including a plurality of buttons, each of the plurality of buttons being associated with a different group of application icons; receiving a user input to activate the menu icon; identifying, based on the received user input to activate the menu icon, a selection of a first button of the menu icon associated with a location of the user input; enlarging, based on the selection, the menu icon and each of the plurality of buttons, the selected first button being enlarged to a size larger than each of the other plurality of buttons; enlarging the display of the menu icon to overlap at least one of the application icons in the first group of application icons; displaying, on the screen of the computing device, a second group of application icons associated with the selected first button of the menu icon, the second group of application icons being different than the first group of application icons; identifying a selection of a second button of the menu icon associated with a changed location of the user input; and displaying, on the screen of the computing device, a third group of application icons associated with the selected second button of the menu icon, the third group of application icons being different than the first group of application icons, being different than the second group of application icons, and being independent of the second group of application icons.