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System and method for vertical path navigation

  • US 8,065,631 B1
  • Filed: 01/29/2009
  • Issued: 11/22/2011
  • Est. Priority Date: 07/17/2003
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A cable-television set-top box, the set-top box comprising:

  • image generation means for;

    causing a display of a first list of items along a first direction on a screen at a first display area;

    upon selection by a user of the set-top box of one of the items in the first list, replacing the first list of items with a second list of items at the first display area, the second list of items comprising one or more sub-items associated with the selected item; and

    causing a display of information indicating the item selected from the first list along a second direction different from the first direction at a second display area,wherein letters of the second list are displayed upright and letters of the information indicative of the selected item are displayed sideways.

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