Patent ID: 8046709

Claim:
An apparatus comprising: a receiving unit which receives at least one service, wherein the at least one received service comprises at least one of a video component, an audio component and a data component; a first module which associates each of a plurality of logical screens with each of the at least one received service, wherein a plurality of screens comprises the plurality of logical screens and at least one display screen; a second module which associates at least one of the plurality of logical screens with each of the at least one display screen; a third module which associates each of the at least one display screen with at least one output port; a processor which, in cooperation with the first module, the second module and the third module, associates each of the plurality of logical screens with a corresponding arbitrary area of each associated display screen; and a fourth module which configures state information of each of screen objects corresponding to the plurality of logical screens, based on the associations of the at least one received service, the at least one display screen, the arbitrary area of each associated display screen and the at least one output port, visibility of the plurality of logical screens on the associated display screen, and orders of the plurality of logical screens arranged along a z-axis on the associated display screen, wherein each of the plurality of logical screens includes at least one of a background image, a video raster and a graphic raster.