Patent ID: 7395514

Claim:
A method for facilitating accessing, manipulating and displaying information obtained from Web and non-Web information sources, comprising: obtaining first information relating to content available from public Internet sources, said first information comprising beginning and ending times for available netcasts; obtaining second information relating to content available from private computer sources, said second information comprising beginning and ending times for scheduled content available from the private computer sources; obtaining third information relating to content available from non-Internet broadcasting sources, said third information comprising beginning and ending times relating to available television, cable, satellite or radio broadcasts; combining said first information, said second information and said third information in order to generate a guide from said combined information, said guide comprising a time-oriented graphical user interface of content available on the Internet, the private computer sources and the non-Internet broadcast sources, said guide operative to access content from said public Internet sources, said private computer sources and said non-Internet broadcasting sources.