Patent ID: 7363645

Claim:
An interactive electronic program guide for display on a television for use with a television delivery system comprising a set top terminal, the guide comprising: a home menu; a plurality of major menus displayed as menu options on the home menu; a plurality of sub-menus displayed as menu options on the plurality of major menus; a plurality of during programming menus enacted after selection of a program; a mask to mask portions of a digitally compressed video, wherein the digitally compressed video comprising a plurality of digitally compressed video clips sent simultaneously on a single channel using split screen video techniques and a first graphic representing the mask is stored in a first graphics file in a memory of the set top terminal, wherein the first graphic is adjusted to cover undesired portions of the digitally compressed video; and a cursor highlight overlay to indicate a position of a cursor on at least one of the menus, wherein the cursor highlight overlay is movable in response to pressing of cursor movement buttons by a user, and wherein a second graphic representing the cursor highlight overlay is stored in a second graphics file in the memory of the set top terminal, wherein the cursor highlight overlay is displayed over the at least one of the menus which is displayed over the mask.