Systems And Methods For Co Axial Navigation Of A User Interface

Abstract: Improved systems and methods for navigating media via a user interface, such as a user interface provided on a handheld or protable computing device, are provided. The methods for navigating media of the invention extend the navigation experience by allowing bi-axial context shifts, e.g. with respect to substantially orthogonal directions, allowing a user to conceptually preserve context associated with the navigation experiece, context that is lost in one-dimnesional hierachical navigation experiences. In one embodiment, the bi-axial navigation mechanism of the invention includes a drill down twist, i.e., the transformation of a parent list of a parent screen from a vertical list to a horizontal band when moving from the parent screen to the child screen and a horizontal browsing mechanism allowing a user to browse multiple lists using a continous band of headers.

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