Patent ID: 8819555

Claim:
Audio video display device (AVDD) comprising: processor; video display presenting demanded images; computer readable storage medium bearing instructions executable by the processor to: present on the display a first graphical user interface (GUI) including plural content panels, each content panel representing a respective video; responsive to a viewer selection of a content panel in the first GUI, present on the display a search GUI containing information pertaining to the selected content panel from the first GUI; responsive to a viewer selection of a panel in the search GUI, present on the display a first new search GUI including plural content panels, responsive to a viewer selection of a panel from the first new search GUI, present at least a second new search GUI including plural content panels that are selectable to present a third new search GUI responsive to selection of a panel from the second new search GUI, wherein the second new search GUI is a “child” new search GUI relative to the “parent” first new search GUI, and wherein the instructions are executable by the processor to present N subsequent child new search GUIs responsive to viewer selection of a panel from an N−1 parent new search GUI; maintain a record of the search GUI, the first, second, and third new search GUIs, and the N new search GUIs; responsive to a first continuous scroll command in a first direction on the first new search GUI, scroll new content panels onto the first new search GUI with at least a first portion of the first new search GUI not scrolling offscreen and with at least a second portion of the first new search GUI scrolling offscreen to be replaced by the new content panels; responsive to a second continuous scroll command in a second direction different from the first direction, replace the first new search GUI with the search GUI; responsive to a third continuous scroll command in substantially the opposite direction as the second direction, replace the first new search GUI with the second new search GUI; responsive to at least one scroll command subsequent to the third scroll command also in substantially the opposite direction as the second direction and in a different direction than the first direction, replace a parent N−1 new search GUI with a child N new search GUI such that the new search GUIs are stacked in the sequence in which their respective searches were conducted; and responsive to at least one scroll command subsequent to the second scroll command in substantially the same direction as the second direction, replace a child N new search GUI with a parent N−1 new search GUI; wherein each child N new search GUI and its respective parent N−1 new search GUI are associated with searches executed prior to respective scroll commands to scroll from one GUI to another being input by a viewer.