Patent ID: 8924854

Claim:
A method for presenting a user interface on a display device, comprising: displaying at least a portion of a first sequence of graphical items along a first axis of the user interface, at least one graphical item corresponding to a category of media program; in response to a first command to navigate in a direction of the first axis, scrolling the first sequence of graphical items along the first axis through a focus area to place a graphical item corresponding to a selected category of media program within the focus area; displaying at least a portion of a second sequence of graphical items along a second axis of a user interface, the second axis intersecting the first axis, each graphical item in the second sequence representing a media program of the selected category within a first time slot; in response to a second command to navigate in a direction of the second axis, scrolling only the second sequence of graphical items along the second axis through the focus area without scrolling any of the first sequence of graphical items; if a second command is not received before conclusion of a first time period, scrolling only the second sequence of graphical items along the second axis through the focus area without scrolling any of the first sequence of graphical items; in response to a time slot navigation command that is different from the first and second commands, replacing the at least a portion of the second sequence with at least a portion of a third sequence of graphical items, each graphical item in the third sequence representing a media program of the selected category within a second time slot that is temporally adjacent to the first time slot; and in response to a graphical item from the third sequence remaining in the focus area for at least a particular amount of time, replacing, without additional user interaction, the third sequence of graphical items with a fourth sequence of graphical items, each graphical item in the fourth sequence representing a media program of the selected category within a third time slot that is temporally adjacent to the second time slot.