Patent ID: 7328275

Claim:
A method of providing a browsing session having an improved selection-to-display time using an apparatus having a wireless transceiver, a display device, a memory and at least one user input device, the method comprising: (a) providing a tree which relates a plurality of computer-readable items that are wirelessly retrievable using the wireless transceiver; (b) in response to a user-initiated selection that a first computer-readable item in the tree be a current item to browse: displaying the first computer-readable item on the display device; wirelessly retrieving a second computer-readable item which is a child of the first computer-readable item in the tree and a third computer-readable item which is a sibling of the first computer-readable item in the tree using the wireless transceiver, without wirelessly retrieving an entire branch of the tree that comprises the second computer-readable item and the third computer-readable item, while said displaying the first computer-readable item on the display device; and storing the second computer-readable item and the third computer-readable item in a local cache provided by the memory; and (c) providing a first control and a second control to select, using the at least one user input device, from two wirelessly-retrieved items in the local cache that have not yet been user-selected in the browsing session.