Patent ID: 8522277

Claim:
A method comprising: generating, with one or more service provider equipment devices, a plurality of user interfaces, each of the user interfaces representing an interactive guide page which lists channel content; generating a graphics layer to facilitate a mask/reveal function within each of the user interfaces; transmitting, using a transmitter within at least one of the one or more service provider equipment devices, each of the user interfaces as a bitstream having a unique identifier to a user terminal via a communication network to distribute the channel content; and transmitting the graphics layer with each of said plurality of user interfaces to the user terminal; wherein each of said plurality of user interfaces includes a video region and a graphics region, each video region for displaying a video sequence common to all of the user interfaces, and each graphics region for displaying a respective different plurality of graphics objects; wherein said graphics layer comprises graphics layer imagery visually cooperating with at least one graphics object of said respective different pluralities of graphics objects, said graphics layer controllable by said user terminal to selectively mask or reveal said at least one graphics object; and wherein said graphics layer has a level of controlled opacity to mask or reveal said at least one graphics object.