Patent ID: 8812986

Claim:
A method, comprising: receiving, by a system comprising a processor, a first request to display available multimedia content items; in response to receiving the first request: determining, by the system, a multimedia content type of each of the available multimedia content items based on metadata associated with the available multimedia content items; determining, by the system, a first plurality of representations by determining a representation of each multimedia content type of the available multimedia content items; determining, by the system, a size for each representation of the first plurality of representations, wherein each size of a respective representation is proportional to an amount of multimedia content associated with the respective representation; communicating, by the system, the first plurality of representations for display at a display device, wherein each representation of the first plurality of representations is indicative of a different multimedia content type; displaying, by the system, a sphere on the display device, wherein the first plurality of representations are distributed around the sphere and wherein a first representation of the first plurality of representations is selected as a focused icon; receiving, by the system, a second request to select a second representation of the first plurality of representations as the focused icon; rotating, by the system, the sphere on the display device to select the second representation as the focused icon according to the second request; generating, by the system, a first animation on the display device wherein the sphere is caused to shrink from a first size to a second size responsive to selection of the second representation; generating, by the system, a second animation on the display device wherein the sphere is caused to grow from the second size to the first size responsive to a third request; receiving, by the system, first input information indicative of a selection of one of the first plurality of representations; and in response to receiving the first input information, communicating, by the system, a second plurality of representations for display in a second circular arrangement at the display device, wherein each of the second plurality of representations is associated with a different sub-type of multimedia content subject matter that is associated with the selected one of the first plurality of representations.