Patent ID: 7954056

Claim:
A method for displaying a multimedia document on a television display, the multimedia document being stored on a storage system as a file, the method comprising: retrieving the multimedia document from the storage system; displaying a section of multimedia information comprising the multimedia document in a first area of the display; displaying a navigation bar in a second area of the display, the navigation bar including a plurality of thumbnail images and a progress bar image representative of a total playing time of the multimedia information, wherein the thumbnail images are extracted from the multimedia information at substantially equal intervals of time between the beginning and end of the multimedia information, wherein the progress bar image includes a symbol displayed at a position on the progress bar image indicative of a time corresponding to the section of the multimedia information being displayed in the first area of the display; displaying a location box on the navigation bar, the location box associated with at least one thumbnail image in the thumbnail images; receiving input from a user indicative of selection of a selected thumbnail image, including, receiving user input to move the location box from a first position associated with a first thumbnail image to a second position associated with the selected thumbnail image; and in response to selection of the selected thumbnail image, displaying in the first area of the display a section of the multimedia information at a point in time corresponding to the selected thumbnail image, including displaying the location box in the second position associated with the selected thumbnail image.