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Systems and methods for providing a dynamically controllable user interface that embraces a variety of media

  • US 20020196268A1
  • Filed: 06/22/2001
  • Published: 12/26/2002
  • Est. Priority Date: 06/22/2001
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. In a computing system that includes a display screen that is capable of displaying a variety of types of media, a method for providing a dynamically controllable user interface that embraces the variety of types of media, the method comprising the acts of:

  • displaying a menu system on the display screen, wherein the menu system includes first and second categories selectable by a viewer;

    displaying the first category at a selected location of the display screen; and

    upon receiving an input command corresponding to a selection of the second category by the viewer, ratcheting the first category from the selected position so as to automatically replace the first category with the second category at the selected position of the display screen.

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