Patent ID: 9535569
Date: 2017-01-03
CPC Classifications: G06F

Claim:
1. A method for displaying a graphical user interface on a mobile device, said method comprising: accessing a portion of an operating system operating on said mobile device; accessing a datastore corresponding to a home multimedia container at a root level of a hierarchy of multimedia containers stored in said mobile device, wherein said home multimedia container comprises a first object, a second object, a third object, and a plurality of subordinate multimedia containers in said hierarchy, wherein said first object is a first portion of content and said second object is an application, wherein said third object is a second portion of content of a different media type from said first object, and wherein said datastore comprises information about said first object, said second object, said third object and said plurality of subordinate multimedia containers; determining a first image based on said information about said first object; determining a second image based on an application icon corresponding to said application; displaying, within said home multimedia container, said first image, said second image, and overlapping images for each of the plurality of subordinate multimedia containers; in response to a user selection of said first image, launching a first application to render said first portion of content; and in response to a user selection of a first set of overlapping images of one of the plurality of subordinate multimedia containers, transforming the first set of overlapping images into a second set of images including non-overlapping images that each correspond to a respective image in the first set of overlapping images.