Patent ID: 8365219

Claim:
An electronic device, comprising: a screen, which shows a number of items, any of which can be selected; a user interface, which controls allows selecting one of said items, and controls navigation among said items; a processor, which runs a stored program, to receive content for a number of different frames of viewable content, and displaying preview frames based on said frames of viewable content, said preview frames being updated periodically to show updated preview frames representing different content than at a previous time, said processor programmed to control selecting one of said preview frames, to provide further information about at least a selected said frame of viewable content, and produce an output which commands another device to select content corresponding to said preview frame; wherein said processor produces an array of different preview frames, each preview frame having information about said viewable content frame therein, and each representing one item which can be viewed on said remote device, and said screen shows only a selection portion that has a subset of said preview frames, and said user interface controls moving through said array to select different subset of preview frames; wherein said array of preview frames has different frames which are updated at different periods, where a first frame closer to a selection portion is updated more frequently than a second frame that is further from the selection portion, where the selection portion is an area where said one of said preview frames is selected to produce the output which commands the anther device to select content corresponding to said preview frame.