Patent ID: 8554278

Claim:
A method of navigating among multiple real-time data streams on a mobile device, the method comprising: locating and identifying real-time data streams capable of being displayed by the mobile device; determining whether the mobile device is capable of executing multiple real-time data streams simultaneously; displaying multiple thumbnail image representations, each thumbnail image representation associated with an available real-time data stream, wherein the multiple thumbnail image representations are generated on the mobile device; receiving a selection for a picture-in-picture (PIP) display; receiving a first navigation input from a user interface, the navigation input for navigating among the multiple displayed thumbnail image representations; selecting a primary thumbnail image representation based on the navigation input; receiving a second navigation input from the user interface and selecting a secondary thumbnail image representation based on the second navigation input; activating an audio portion of the real-time data stream associated with the primary thumbnail image representation; and displaying the real-time data stream associated with the primary thumbnail image representation and the real-time data stream associated with the second thumbnail image representation in a PIP format on a mobile device display, wherein the thumbnail image representations comprise still images captured from their associated real-time data streams when the mobile device is not capable of executing multiple real-time data streams simultaneously and wherein each thumbnail image representation comprises a real-time data stream when the mobile device is capable of executing multiple real-time data streams simultaneously.