Patent ID: 7376907

Claim:
A method executed by a processor under the control of a program, said method comprising: partitioning a display into an array of tiles wherein information from a first source is displayed on a first tile in said array of tiles and information from a second source is displayed on a second tile in said array of tiles; assigning a first refresh rate to said first tile and a second refresh rate to said second tile, wherein information from at least one of said first source and said second source contains an identifier that is used in said assigning; updating information from said first source presented to said first tile in accordance with said first refresh rate; and updating information from said second source presented to said second tile in accordance with said second refresh rate, wherein said partitioning includes arranging said array of tiles into a non-overlapping configuration wherein at least one of said tiles of said array of tiles has a different size and shape from another of said tiles of said array of tiles.