Patent ID: 8640166

Claim:
A method for content surfing on user equipment, the method comprising: storing a non-zero channel separation value that determines a separation between channels in a content surf channel list, the non-zero channel separation value being selected based on a user profile; identifying a list of channels for inclusion in a content surf, wherein a first channel in the list is separated from a second channel in the list by the previously stored non-zero channel separation value, and wherein the second channel is adjacent to the first channel in the list and is tuned after the first channel is tuned; during the content surf, generating a display of a first content selection in a first window on a display and receiving a first user request to pause the content surf while the first content selection is displayed in the first window; in response to determining that 1) a first user request to continue the content surf has been received and 2) the first user request to pause the content surf was previously received while the first content selection was displayed in the first window, generating a display of a visual representation of the first content selection in a second window on the display, wherein the visual representation includes video corresponding to the first content selection; and generating a display of a second content selection in the first window in response to determining that a second user request to pause the content surf has been received.