Patent ID: 8902253

Claim:
A computing device, comprising: a touch screen display; one or more processors; memory; and one or more programs, wherein the one or more programs are stored in the memory and configured to be executed by the one or more processors, the one or more programs including: instructions for detecting one or more finger contacts with the touch screen display and relative to a displayed electronic document comprising a set of items; and instructions for applying one of a plurality of navigation operations in response to the detected one or more finger contacts and based at least on a distance and a direction of the one or more finger contacts, wherein applying one of the plurality of navigation operations comprises: applying a vertical screen scrolling operation in response to a determination that the one or more finger contacts correspond to a one-dimensional vertical screen scrolling command rather than a two-dimensional screen translation command based on a movement of the one or more finger contacts with respect to the touch screen display; applying a two-dimensional screen translation operation in response to a determination that the one or more finger contacts correspond to the two-dimensional screen translation command rather than the one-dimensional vertical screen scrolling command based on the movement of the finger contact with respect to the touch screen display; and applying a next item operation in response to a determination that the one or more finger contacts correspond to a command to transition from displaying a respective item in the set of items to displaying a next item in the set of items within the electronic document.