Patent ID: 7421664

Claim:
A method for presenting one or more categories of related items to a user via a display, the display having a plurality of display lines, the method comprising: presenting at least a portion of a first category of related items, and presenting at least a portion of a second category of related items, wherein each presented item is presented to the user on at least one display line on the display; presenting a category separator disposed between or in connection with the portion of the first category of related items and the portion of the second category of related items; scrolling the first category of related items, the second category of related items, and the category separator in response to one or more actions by the user; maintaining the category separator at a predetermined position on the display in response to further of said one or more actions by the user once the category separator reaches the predetermined position of the display; associating the category separator with the second category of related items, the category separator including a displayed value that indicates a number of related items in the second category of related items that have been scrolled out of view of the display; and updating the displayed value in response to said scrolling.