Patent ID: 7921377

Claim:
A method for generating an interactive electronic menu on a display, the menu comprising menu buttons, wherein a menu button may be in a deselected, selected or activated state, and the menu being coded into a menu data segment, comprising a. retrieving a data segment having encoded therein at least graphic data for a first and a second menu button and data connecting the first and the second menu button by a parent-child relationship, wherein the second menu button being a child of the first menu button can only be selected while the first menu button is selected and wherein at least one button command is associated to the first menu button and coded into said menu data segment, the button command being usable for modifying a visibility of at least the second menu button; b. generating the interactive menu on a display, wherein at least the first menu button but not the second menu button is displayed; and c. upon selection of the first menu button and execution of said button command, modifying said interactive menu such that the first and the second menu button are displayed simultaneously.