Patent ID: 7458093

Claim:
A system comprising: a user computer, coupled to a data network, to display a user interface usable to access a user account to enter a plurality of fantasy sports preferences, the fantasy sports preferences comprising data identifying one or more players; and a client-side device, coupled to the data network, to receive said plurality of fantasy sports preferences from the data network and broadcast programming content from a broadcast source, said broadcast programming comprising a plurality of sporting events, said client-side device being programmed to, access said plurality of fantasy sports preferences from the user account via the data network, display fantasy sports data on a display of said client-side device, where said fantasy sports data is based on said plurality of fantasy sports preferences from the user account, automatically map said data identifying one or more players against a schedule of said sporting events, display, based on said map, an indication of one or more sporting events featuring said one or more players or an indication of one or more of said players featured in one or more of said sporting events; display said one or more players in a list, wherein selection of said one or more players in the list brings up at least one score for the one or more sporting events said one or more players participate in; receive at least one of the plurality of sporting events streamed as non-broadcast data and storing the data thereon, the at least one received sporting event selected based on said map; and allow a user accessing said client-side device to communicate directly with one or more other users through the data network during said one or more sporting events, said one or more other users having one or more user accounts with fantasy sports preferences comprising data identifying one or more players and wherein said one or more sporting events are live and feature one or more players identified by the fantasy sport preferences of both the user and the one or more other users.