Patent ID: 8159959

Claim:
A method for displaying movies, the method being performed by one or more processors and comprising: providing a graphic user interface after a movie title is selected, the graphic user interface including a track bar to reflect how much time data pertaining to the movie title is available for playback, wherein the track bar progressively expands as at least some of the data is being downloaded; determining whether a current data point is being dragged along the track bar; tracking a time corresponding to the current data point as the current data point is being dragged; determining a speed of the current data point being dragged along the track bar; in response to determining the speed of the current data point being dragged along the track bar, displaying a sequence of images corresponding to the movie title and corresponding to the speed of the current data point being dragged, wherein displaying the sequence of images includes displaying a default image when the speed of the current data point being dragged is greater than a particular speed; and continuing to play back the movie title from the time corresponding to the current data point once the current data point is no longer dragged along the track bar.