Abstract: An electronic visual display includes a screen having a plurality of canvases each configured to display content from at least one content source. The content displayed on each one of the plurality of canvases may be independent of the content displayed on each other one of the plurality of canvases. The display also includes a single software-implemented user agent adapted to receive user selections associated with at least one of the canvases and configured to manage each of the plurality of canvases independently of one another according to the user selections. The user agent is configured to prevent the canvases from overlaying any portion of one another.

Abstract: A visual display includes at least a first canvas configured to display a first session on the display and a second canvas configured to display a second session on the display. The first session includes first content received from a first content source and the second session includes second content having subject matter associated with the first content. The display includes a user agent configured to determine that the first content of the first session is associated with the second content of the second session and to pair the first and second canvases such that the first content and the second content are synchronized to each other.

Abstract: Some embodiments provide methods of displaying content comprising: receiving, through a user agent of a web browser application implemented on a television, web content comprising an option defined within the web content to cause the retrieval and playback of additional multimedia content; activating a first canvas and displaying the web content in the first canvas; detecting an activation of the option; retrieving the additional multimedia content; intercepting the additional multimedia content and preventing the additional multimedia content from being displayed within the first canvas; activating a second canvas; and playing back, on the television and in response to the detection of the activation of the option, the additional multimedia content within the second canvas while the web content continues to be displayed within the first canvas such that both the first canvas and the second canvas are active and displayed simultaneously.

Abstract: A visual display includes at least a first canvas configured to display a first session on the display and a second canvas configured to display a second session on the display. The first session includes first content received from a first content source and the second session includes second content having subject matter associated with the first content. The display includes a user agent configured to determine that the first content of the first session is associated with the second content of the second session and to pair the first and second canvases such that the first content and the second content are synchronized to each other.