Patent ID: 8555167

Claim:
A method of providing content related to a multimedia program on a display device, comprising: monitoring a currently viewed multimedia program on a display device; retrieving content related to said currently viewed multimedia program from a content source based on information obtained from said currently viewed multimedia program; and displaying at least a portion of said content on an interactive user interface on said display device upon request by a user viewing said currently viewed multimedia program; said user being able to adjust a size and position of said user interface on said display device, in which said user interface comprises at least a first and a second module, such that said first and second modules display different content related to said currently viewed multimedia program, wherein a transparency of the user interface is adjustable along a sliding scale ranging from opaque to transparent on a per module basis or collective basis, wherein said user being able to adjust a size and position of said user interface on said display device includes adjusting an amount of said content displayed on said user interface by increasing or decreasing said size of said user interface and a group manipulation action where said first and second modules are simultaneously adjusted in size and position, wherein said group manipulation action is performed with a single press of a button and permits said user to cycle through a set of group configurations where each group configuration includes different position, size, transparency, and content settings for each module displayed and where an amount of said content displayed on said user interface increases and decreases in accordance with each group configuration, and wherein the user interface is automatically not displayed upon completion of said cycling through the set of group configurations.