Patent ID: 7802203

Claim:
A computer-implemented menu display method, comprising: in response to a click of a menu item clickable via a first click event and via a second click event: determining, by a processor, by which of the first click event and the second click event the menu item was clicked, whichever one of the first click event and the second click event occurred thereby being a determined click event; and selectively associating, by the processor, the click with the menu item that has been clicked to render the menu item a selected menu item; and in accordance with the association of the click with the menu item and in accordance with the determination, displaying a menu by the processor and in a display device; wherein: the display of the menu is (a) in a menu map view where the determined click event is the first click event and (b) in a cascading view where the determined click event is the second click event; and the first click event is one of a right-click of a mouse and a left-click of the mouse, and the second click event is the other of the right-click of the mouse and the left-click of the mouse.