Patent ID: 8578420

Claim:
A method for automated display of video programming guide information, the method comprising: filtering program information using a plurality of filtering rules to determine a plurality of viewing events; identifying a scheduling conflict between a first viewing event and a second viewing event of the plurality of viewing events when a display time of the first viewing event overlaps with a display time of the second viewing event; displaying, on a first screen portion, the plurality of viewing events in a chronological order based on a display time for each of the plurality of viewing events, wherein displaying the plurality of viewing events in the chronological order comprises resolving the scheduling conflict identified between the first viewing event and the second viewing event of the plurality of viewing events and displaying in the first screen portion only those viewing events that are non-scheduling conflicted events based on the scheduling conflict resolution, arranged in a chronological order based on display time for each of the non-scheduling conflicted events, wherein the non-scheduling conflicted events displayed in the first screen portion are whole viewing events; displaying a selector in the first screen portion, such that the selector is operative to select at least one of the plurality of viewing events; and displaying, on a second screen portion, event information relating to a selected one of the plurality of viewing events when the selector is proximate to one of the plurality of viewing events.