Patent ID: 7827202
Filing Date: 2010-11-02
Classification: G06Q,Y10S

Abstract:
1. A system comprising: a processor; a user database including information concerning a fantasy game, the information representing players of interest engaged in a real-life competitive activity that forms a basis for the fantasy game; a program database including multimedia program listing information associated with a plurality of multimedia programs, said multimedia program listing information specifying temporal intervals during which the multimedia programs are available; and a scheduling manager coupled to the user database, the program database and the processor, the scheduling manager configured to direct the processor to: determine, based on the information representing the players of interest in the user database and the multimedia program listing information in the program database, a number of the multimedia programs that are associated with the players of interest, determine, based on performance statistics representative of performances of the players of interest in the real-life competitive activity, at least one media program from the number of media programs determined to be associated with the players of interest, and provide a scheduling screen containing at least one identification of the at least one media program determined based on the performance statistics.