Patent ID: 8209424

Claim:
A method for remotely accessing user equipment implementing an interactive media guidance application, the method comprising: receiving, from a user device, at a server remote from the user device, an action request that includes instructions identifying a program for which to remotely schedule an action with the user equipment, wherein the user device utilizes first program information obtained from a first program information database to generate the action request for the program; transmitting the action request for the program to be processed using second program information from a second program information database to schedule the action request for the program, wherein the second program information database is different from the first program information database; detecting, with the server, using program information received in the action request, a disparity between the first program information for the program and the second program information for the program; searching for alternate scheduling information for the program in response to detecting the disparity; and transmitting a second action request to the user equipment to schedule the action, wherein the second action request is generated based on the alternate scheduling information.