Patent ID: 8219930

Claim:
A method comprising: displaying, by a computing system, a graphical representation of a two-dimensional radial menu in a graphical user interface generated by said computing system; detecting, by said computing system, user input associated with said graphical representation of said two-dimensional radial menu in said graphical user interface; and transforming, by said computing system, said graphical representation of said two-dimensional radial menu into a graphical representation of a three-dimensional radial menu in said graphical user interface in response to said user input; wherein said graphical representation of said two-dimensional radial menu comprises: a center point graphical object; a plurality of category menu graphical objects positioned about said center point graphical object at a first radial distance from said center point graphical object; and a plurality of application menu graphical objects positioned about said plurality of category menu graphical objects at a second radial distance from said center point graphical object; wherein said graphical representation of said three-dimensional radial menu provides a front-view display of at least one of said category menu graphical objects in said graphical user interface, said front-view display being from a viewpoint proximate to a center of said three-dimensional radial menu.