Patent ID: 8739052

Claim:
A method of employing a user interface for accessing a plurality of different media types, the method implemented at a computing device having a display, the method comprising: displaying a presentation of a first type of media item in a first user interface on the display of the computing device, wherein the presentation of the media item occupies an entire available display area of the display, the media item comprising one of a plurality of types of media items including a pay-per-view movie, a video on demand, a song and associated visual information, one or more user photographs, or a television program; upon receipt of a user input at the computing device, determining the type of the media item currently displayed on the display of the computing device in the first user interface; outputting, in response to the user input, a second user interface concurrently with the presentation of the media item in the first user interface, wherein the second user interface includes one or more displayed control features for performing control functions with respect to the media item currently displayed, wherein different second user interfaces having different displayed control features are presented based at least in part on the type of the media item currently displayed in the first user interface when the second user interface is output in response to the user input; and displaying, concurrently on the display of the computing device, the second user interface as an overlay on top of the presentation of the media item in the first user interface, the second user interface being translucent and covering a portion of the presentation of the media item concurrently displayed in the first user interface.