Patent ID: 8839297

Claim:
A method comprising: sending a first display of a first plurality of selectable icons from a multimedia receiver to a display device, wherein each selectable icon of the first plurality of selectable icons is associated with a particular user profile; receiving a first selection of a particular first selectable icon of the first plurality of selectable icons, wherein the particular first selectable icon represents multimedia content associated with a first user profile; in response to receiving the first selection of the particular first selectable icon, sending a second display of the particular first selectable icon without other selectable icons of the first plurality of selectable icons and a second plurality of selectable icons to the display device, wherein the second plurality of selectable icons is associated with the first user profile, wherein a particular second selectable icon of the second plurality of selectable icons represents a particular multimedia program that is associated with the first user profile, wherein a particular third selectable icon of the second plurality of selectable icons is selectable to initiate a display of a third plurality of selectable icons, wherein each selectable icon of the third plurality of selectable icons is selectable to initiate a display of distinct stored multimedia content items of a collection of stored multimedia content items, wherein the collection of stored multimedia content items is associated with the first user profile, and wherein a particular fourth selectable icon of the second plurality of selectable icons is selectable to initiate a display of a particular stored multimedia content item associated with the first user profile; and in response to receiving a second selection of the particular second selectable icon of the second plurality of selectable icons at the multimedia receiver; initiating a search of a multimedia distribution system to locate a plurality of episodes of the particular multimedia program, wherein the plurality of episodes is available to the multimedia receiver; and displaying a fourth plurality of selectable icons, wherein the fourth plurality of selectable icons includes a first selectable episode icon and a second selectable episode icon, wherein the first selectable episode icon corresponds to a first episode of the plurality of episodes, and wherein the second selectable episode icon corresponds to a second episode of the plurality of episodes, wherein the display of the fourth plurality of selectable icons includes a display of: the particular first selectable icon without other selectable icons of the first plurality of selectable icons, and the particular second selectable icon of the second plurality of selectable icons without other selectable icons of the second plurality of selectable icons, and wherein the first selectable episode icon includes a display of the first episode and the second selectable episode icon includes a display of the second episode.