Patent ID: 8544040

Claim:
A method of displaying program guide information, comprising: at a computer system having one or more processors and memory storing one or more programs for execution by the one or more processors: presenting a subset of a collection of program guide data on a first grid having a first axis corresponding to units of time and a second axis, the collection of program guide data comprising data representing time-bounded events; concurrently, while presenting data in the first grid, displaying a second grid that partially overlaps the first grid, the second grid having first and second axes the same as the first and second axes of the first grid, the second grid has a greater number of the time-bounded events in the collection of program guide data than the subset presented on the first grid and the second grid is concurrently displayed with the first grid on a screen; and presenting a user moveable window within the second grid for selecting a portion of the second grid, and updating the subset of the collection of program guide data concurrently presented on the first grid in accordance with the portion of the second grid selected by a current position of the user moveable window the selected portion of the second grid within the user movable window are displayed in a larger view on the first grid; wherein the second axis of the first and second grids corresponds to content genres.