"The media player user interface Creative Technology claims to be invented in-house enables selection of at least one track in player as a user sequentially navigates through a hierarchy using three or more successive screens on the display of the player. One example would be the sequence of screens that could display artists, then albums, and then tracks."

God do I HATE Creative. How the f@!k do they survive. Anyways, my rant is over.

I can understand pattenting the code for the interface you created, but to patent the interface itself is just plain ridiculous, and another example how the US patent office is screwed up beyond all hope. Micrsoft might as well sue Creative for using the interface from Windows Explorer to havigate the folders on their devices, hell they've had this interface in place since the days of File Manager, hell, DOS even had it w/ dos shell.

boring needs colour and fancy writing lots of luv megz xxxxxxx