Twitter Patents: Pull To Refresh?!

Twitter Patents: Pull To Refresh?!

Twitter has a patent on the smartphone staple interaction, pull to refresh. How can this be?

Input associated with a scroll command may be received. Then, based on the scroll command, a scrollable refresh trigger may be displayed. Subsequently, the scrollable list of content items may be refreshed in response to determining, based on the scroll command, that the scrollable refresh trigger has been activated. In at least one instance, it may be determined that the scrollable refresh trigger has been activated in response to determining that the scroll command was completed while the scrollable refresh trigger was fully displayed.

The pull-to-refresh patent by Dustin Curtis.