Patent ID: 7380260

Claim:
A home entertainment system comprising: a personal computer media center for providing media content to a plurality of remotely located televisions within a home, the home media center including: a user interface module to generate graphical commands usable by a separate media center extension to render a user interface on one of the plurality of televisions, wherein the user interface comprises: a focus area intersected by a first axis and a second axis, the second axis being perpendicular to the first axis; a first sequence of cards displayed along the first axis, wherein a user is allowed to scroll the first sequence of cards through a focus area of the user interface to place a particular card within the focus area; a second sequence of cards displayed along a second axis in response to a first card from the first sequence being scrolled into the focus area without an additional selection action with respect to the first card, wherein a user is allowed to scroll the second sequence of cards along the second axis; wherein each card represents a single option, and wherein a representation of only one option at a time is scrolled through the focus area; and a network interface to send the graphical commands representing the user interface through a home network to a media center extension; and a plurality of media center extensions coupled to the personal computer media center via the home network, each media center extension including: a network interface to receive the graphical commands from the home media center via the home network; and a display interface to render the graphical commands into the user interface on a respective television.