Patent ID: 8776119

Claim:
A method of displaying an information ticker in association with a personalized video mosaic, comprising: receiving, in a television services system, a subscriber selection of multiple video sources from a plurality of video sources broadcast in the cable television services system; generating, in the television services system, a personalized video mosaic, the personalized video mosaic comprising the subscriber selection of the multiple video sources; transmitting the personalized video mosaic to the subscriber for simultaneous viewing of the selected multiple video sources on a broadcast channel in the television services system; displaying the selected multiple video sources in the personalized video mosaic on the broadcast channel; capturing a video source associated with information content obtained from a source not associated with any of the selected multiple video sources in the personalized video mosaic; transmitting to the subscriber the video source associated with the information content selected by the subscriber separately from selection of the multiple video sources for forming the video mosaic for simultaneous viewing of the desired information content with the multiple video sources in the personalized video mosaic on the broadcast channel in the television services system; hiding from view the information ticker including the video source associated with the desired information content selected by the subscriber separately from selection of the multiple video sources for forming the video mosaic until the subscriber focuses on a window of a video source in the personalized video mosaic; and upon the subscriber focusing on a window of a video source in the personalized video mosaic, displaying the captured video source associated with a desired information content to present moving information within a predetermined space to provide the information ticker on the broadcast channel associated with the personalized video mosaic proximate to, but separate from, each of the selected multiple video sources displayed in the personalized video mosaic, the moving information comprising the desired information content.