Patent ID: 7174512

Claim:
A portal for a broadcast digital television system comprising a remote terminal connected via a communications network to a broadcast center, the portal comprising: a display connected to the remote terminal for displaying a plurality of pages, wherein each page of the plurality of pages comprises an arrangement of cells, each cell comprising a visual object and an underlying application that is launched from behind each cell and is displayed upon user selection of each cell; and a user input device for selecting one cell of the arrangement of cells, wherein each page of the plurality of pages is dynamically reorganized based on a content of the arrangement of cells on each page, wherein a first cell of the arrangement of cells displays one of a plurality of programs received from the broadcast center, wherein a second cell of the arrangement of cells is sensitive to the context of the first cell displaying the one program, and wherein a third cell of the arrangement of cells is generated for a specific period of time corresponding to a length of at least one of the plurality of programs being displayed on another cell of the arrangement of cells.