Patent ID: 6993721

Claim:
A system for enabling a user to select among and access one of a plurality of Internet websites, comprising: a graphical user interface, which includes: an Internet website selection-access enabling element for enabling selection of and access to one of a plurality of Internet websites; a television channel navigation enabling element for enabling navigation of the one or more television channels; a web channel selection-access enabling element for enabling selection of and access to one of an array of web channels upon actuating the Internet website selection-access enabling element, wherein each web channel includes a plurality of selectable categories associated with the web channel and includes a plurality of selectable Internet websites related to and associated with each selectable category; and a web channel customization enabling element for enabling customization of at least one of the array of web channels upon actuating the web channel selection-access enabling element so as to enable selection of one of the plurality of selectable categories associated with the web channel and selection of one of the plurality of selectable Internet websites related to and associated with each selectable category; wherein the Internet website selection-access enabling element comprises a guide button; wherein the web channel selection-access enabling element comprises a web channel guide window, adapted to be accessed upon actuation of the guide button, the web channel guide window including an array of web channel buttons, each web channel button being associated with a web channel and adapted to be actuated to enable access to the associated web channel, and including an array of customization buttons, each customization button being associated with one of the array of web channel buttons; and wherein the web channel customization enabling means element comprises an Internet program guide window, adapted to be accessed upon actuating one of the array of customization buttons, the Internet program guide window including an array of selectable category buttons and an array of website buttons associated with each category button.