Patent ID: 7580954

Claim:
A method of changing operations performed relative to digital signal data that represents a recording of a signal, the method comprising: generating a display of a particular ordered list of items containing only items that specify editing operations that both (a) have been chosen to be performed relative to the digital signal data and (b) have been added to the particular ordered list in response to a user's commands to perform those editing operations; wherein the order of items in the particular ordered list determines an order in which operations that correspond to the items are performed relative to the digital signal data; wherein the particular ordered list includes, at one end of the particular ordered list, a particular item that corresponds to a particular operation that is to be performed after all other operations represented by items in the particular ordered list have been performed; and in response to user input, (a) performing, to the digital signal data, a particular change that does not alter the particular operation and (b) modifying the display of the particular ordered list to reflect the particular change; wherein after modifying the display, the particular item remains at said one end of the particular ordered list, indicating that said particular operation continues to be the operation performed after all other operations represented by items in the particular ordered list have been performed.