Patent ID: 8893184

Claim:
A method comprising: integrating a plurality of multimedia planes into an integrated set of multimedia planes to be presented through an integrated user interface at a media processing device, wherein the plurality of multimedia planes correspond to a plurality of content types; selecting, via the integrated user interface, one or more content types from the plurality of content types, wherein the integrated user interface serves as a unified access point for presenting multimedia contents corresponding to the plurality of content types; presenting the multimedia contents via the plurality of multimedia planes, wherein one or more of the integrated set of multimedia planes serve as one or more ribbons including a category ribbon listing categories associated with the multimedia contents, and a media object ribbon listing media objects associated with the categories, wherein the one or more ribbons are displayed as running horizontally or vertically; and facilitating multi-directional messaging, via one or more message buses, between two or more processes associated with two or more multimedia planes of the plurality of multimedia planes, wherein the two or more multimedia planes to facilitate simultaneous displaying of two or more of the category ribbon, the media object ribbon, an information panel, and an action panel, wherein the two or more multimedia planes to facilitate simultaneous rendering of two or more of the plurality of content types including one or more of an audio content, a video content, a graphics content, and a webpage content.