Patent ID: 9743139
Date: 2017-08-22
CPC Classifications: G06Q,H04N

Claim:
1. A method for presenting calendaring information in a media guidance application, the method comprising: receiving, from a calendar application, calendar data for a plurality of events associated with a user, wherein the calendar data comprises event time intervals having associated event start times and end times; comparing the event time intervals of the plurality of events with media asset time intervals of a first plurality of media assets, wherein each media asset of the first plurality of media assets has an associated media asset start time and end time and is scheduled for transmission to a plurality of users during a corresponding media asset time interval; based on the comparing, storing in a corresponding media asset database entry, a conflict indicator, for a first plurality of media asset identifiers corresponding to a second plurality of media assets, wherein the second plurality of media assets comprises media assets from the first plurality of media assets that have an associated media asset time interval that overlaps at least in part with at least one of the event time intervals; generating for display a second plurality of media asset identifiers corresponding to media assets that are scheduled for transmission to the plurality of users during a time period, wherein the second plurality of media asset identifiers comprises a first portion that comprises media asset identifiers included in the first plurality of media asset identifiers and a second portion that includes media asset identifiers not included in the first plurality of media asset identifiers, and wherein the media asset identifiers in the first portion are visually distinguished from the media asset identifiers in the second portion; determining a first priority of a first event of the plurality of events that overlaps at least in part with a transmission time of a first media asset corresponding to a first media asset identifier in the first portion; determining a second priority of a second event of the plurality of events that overlaps at least in part with a transmission time of a second media asset corresponding to a second media asset identifier in the first portion; and visually distinguishing the first media asset identifier in the first portion from the second media asset identifier in the first portion based on the first priority being different from the second priority.