Scrolling items on a list

[0024] In most applications there is some way of determining the relative relevance of the items on the list. For example, in many applications, users are more likely to use items which they have recently selected, visited, modified or added, which they use frequently, or which are in proximity of the current location of the user.

[0025] According to an embodiment of the invention, a relevance value is maintained for each item in the list. The higher the relevance value of an item is the slower scrolling is around that item or vice versa. It is clear to a man skilled in the art that alternatively scrolling speed may be slower around items having low relevance values, if such implementation is preferred. (However, in that case the relevance value could be renamed as an “irrelevance value”.)

[0026] The relevance values of the items on a list may be stored into suitable storage or they may be recalculated “in real-time” each time the list is opened. Also a combination of these alternative