titles under the heading u201c filmography u201d can be implemented as hyperlinks which when actuated by the user via the input device will cause the gui to display a gui screen corresponding to that of fig2 for the indicated movie some or all of the information used to generate the interface screens of fig1 a 1 b and 2 comes from metadata provided by one or more metadata providers and processed in accordance with exemplary embodiments of the present invention as will now be described the interface screens shown in fig1 a 1 b and 2 are purely exemplary and metadata and other data transferred and processed in accordance with the present invention can be used to support other interfaces or for purposes other than interface generation likewise many different types of information can be received and processed in accordance with the present invention examples of metadata types sources and associated uses e g for a tv browser interface a video on demand vod interface or a music browser are shown in the table of fig3 of particular interest for this detailed discussion are the zooming features associated with user interfaces generated in accordance with these exemplary embodiments of the present invention although the present invention is not limited to techniques or systems for generating zoomable user interfaces some of the client server features discussed herein are particularly beneficial for use in conjunction with user interfaces which include zooming transitions between user interface screens for the purpose of this detailed description the terms u201c zoom u201d u201c zoomable u201d and.