Patent ID: 7165098

Claim:
A method for providing a user with personalized schedule information for television-related, non-television-related and personal-related events, comprising: providing the user with an opportunity to select at least one television-related information source from a plurality of television-related information sources for providing television program listings for the television-related events; providing the user with an opportunity to specify first criteria for delivering the television program listings for the television-related events from the at least one selected television-related information source; providing the user with an opportunity to select at least one non-television-related information source from a plurality of non-television-related information sources for providing schedule information for non-televised events; providing the user with an opportunity to specify second criteria for delivering the schedule information for non-televised events from the at least one selected non-television-related information source; providing the user with an opportunity to enter scheduling information for an event personal to the user; providing the user with an opportunity to select a delivery scheme from a plurality of delivery schemes for delivering the personalized schedule information, wherein the personalized schedule information includes the television program listings for the television-related events based on the first specified criteria, the schedule information for non-televised events based on the second specified criteria, and the user entered scheduling information; generating the personalized schedule information; and delivering the personalized schedule information to the user based on the delivery scheme selected by the user.