Patent ID: 8582957

Claim:
A method for visually displaying a television recording conflict, the method comprising: receiving a first user input requesting to record a first television program; receiving a second user input requesting to record a second television program; identifying a recording conflict between the first television program and the second television program during a conflict time period in which time boundaries of the first television program and the second television program conflict; displaying a first visual representation of the first television program and a second visual representation of the second television program simultaneously along a time axis of a user interface menu, with at least a portion of the first visual representation being overlaid on a portion of the second visual representation along the time axis corresponding to the conflict time period, wherein the overlay of the first visual representation on the portion of the second visual representation causes the portion of the second visual representation to be obscured; receiving a user input to graphically modify a time boundary between the first television program and the second television program and thereby resolve the conflict between the first and second television programs by dragging an edge of one or both of the first and second visual representations; and responsive to the user input graphically modifying the time boundary, displaying the first visual representation adjacent to the second visual representation along the time axis of the user interface menu such that the first visual representation no longer obscures any portion of the second visual representation.