Patent ID: 7680824

Claim:
A computer-implemented method of operation on one or more data processing devices for generating a list of media items selected from a library of media items, said method comprising: displaying a series of cascading drop-down menus, wherein the drop-down menus provide for selection by a user of one or more of the following: media type, library, category, and subcategory; displaying information identifying a portion of the library of media items, said identified portion of the library of media items corresponding to one or more selections by the user from the drop-down menus; displaying a hyperlink selection element independent of the displayed information identifying the portion of the library, wherein the displayed hyperlink selection element is a function of the selections by the user from the drop-down menus; in response to only a single action being performed by the user, selecting a group of media items from the identified portion of the library of media items, wherein the single action comprises selecting the hyperlink selection element by the user without selecting any media item from the identified portion of the library of media items, and wherein the selected group represents a subset of the identified portion of the library of media items; and in response to the selected hyperlink selection element only and not in response to any other action by the user, generating the list of media items with the selected group of media items.