Patent ID: 7750895

Claim:
A method of navigating items on a display on a computing device with a touch sensitive input device comprising: Accepting an input at a first location on the input device; Creating a deadzone around the first location; Establishing a grid of tick lines around the input wherein the grid of tick lines comprises vertical tick lines and horizontal tick lines; If the input moves outside of the deadzone, storing a coordinate location comprising a vertical and horizontal location at which the input leaves the deadzone; Determining an input direction by using a direction from the coordinate location of a previous tick line crossed to the coordinate location of a current tick line crossed; If the input moves a number of tick distances wherein the number of tick distances is greater than zero, rotating the display of items by a factor of the tick distances in the input direction; If the input is removed from the input device, Determining a velocity of the input movement using a location of the input at sampled times and the distance the input traveled during the sampled times; If the velocity is above a threshold, displaying the items on the display in which the items rotate past on the display in the input direction at an initial velocity that decreases and in which the initial velocity is in relation to the velocity of the input movement.