Patent ID: 8095891

Claim:
An apparatus, comprising: (a) a menu displayed on a video display unit; (b) said menu comprising: (i) a set of search criteria as a search criteria list, said search criteria list comprising first and second search criteria, wherein the second search criteria is selectable as a subset of a first search criteria; and (ii) a set of results as a results list; (c) means for inputting a user's selection from the menu as a selected element; (d) means for accessing the selected result for the user if the user has selected an element of the set of results; and (e) means for outputting to the video display unit if the user has selected an element of the search criteria; (f) said means for outputting comprising: (i) an updated menu reflecting the selected element from the set of search criteria, the updated menu populating and reordering the selected element and search criteria in a first column; (ii) the results of the search criteria as applied to a content database; (iii) wherein the results are populated in a second column with metadata associated with the results being populated in at least a third column, the results and metadata being displayed simultaneously with the search criteria.