A computerized method of presenting information from a variety of sources
on a display device. Specifically the present invention describes a
graphical user interface for organizing the simultaneous display of
information from a multitude of information sources. In particular, the
present invention comprises a graphical user interface which organizes
content from a variety of information sources into a grid of tiles, each
of which can refresh its content independently of the others. The grid
functionality manages the refresh rates of the multiple information
sources. According to one embodiment, the method of the present invention
allocates refresh rates to tiles according to priorities that are
assigned based on identifiers such as quality of service (QoS) tags
associated with one or more of the information sources. The present
invention is intended to operate in a platform independent manner.