Patent ID: 8281255

Claim:
A method comprising: establishing a provider homepage template at a content processing system of a television distribution system, said template having a category area; receiving a first plurality of content and a first plurality of metadata from a first content provider at the content processing system; receiving a first plurality of content categories corresponding to each of the respective first plurality of content at the content processing system from the first content provider; receiving a second plurality of content and a second plurality of metadata from a second content provider at the content processing system; receiving a second plurality of content categories corresponding to each of the respective second plurality of content at the content processing system from the second content provider; communicating homepage information for a first provider to the content processing system; communicating the first plurality of metadata, the second plurality of metadata, the first plurality of content categories and the second plurality of content categories to a user device; forming a first menu structure using the provider homepage template with the first homepage information, the first plurality of content categories filling the category area and the first plurality of metadata corresponding to the first content provider without the second plurality of metadata and without the second plurality of content categories; and forming a second menu structure with at least some of the first plurality of metadata and at least some of the second plurality of metadata and at least one of each of the first content category and second content category filling the category area; and separately displaying on a display associated with the user device the first menu structure and the second menu structure based upon user input into the user device.