Patent ID: 8381130

Claim:
A method for navigating a user-interface showing a plurality of scheduled items arranged in a grid, the method comprising: displaying in a grid, items of information categorized by time periods in a time scale axis and by one or more specific labels in a second axis, wherein the items comprise plurality of television programs and wherein the second axis comprises a channel list; displaying a user controllable slider on the time scale axis that is located external to said grid; displaying an interactive time schedule associated with a first time period; allowing the user to control a window of interest associated with the interactive time schedule with the slider by selecting a second time period with the slider, said second time period being temporally non-contiguous with respect to the first time period; establishing one or more background asynchronous data communication processes; and in response to the user's movement of the slider, seamlessly updating the items of information displayed in the grid based on the current position of the slider along the time scale axis without reloading the user-interface screen, the asynchronous data communication processes retrieving the updated items of information to facilitate the seamless update.