Linking and browsing media on television
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4-1. The method of claim 1 further including:
- detecting an activation of a select one of the links;
acquiring content related to the selected link; and
populating a least a portion of the display with the content.
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Abstract
Techniques for linking and browsing media on a television (TV) are provided. A selected program, which is associated with a channel of the TV, is detected and additional content, which is associated with that channel and/or the selected program, is dynamically acquired from one or more external sources. The additional content is formatted as links and simultaneously presented within a display of the TV along with the selected program that continues to play on the TV. Furthermore, activation of any link results in the additional content being dynamically acquired and presented within the display.
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26 Claims
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4-1. The method of claim 1 further including:
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detecting an activation of a select one of the links;
acquiring content related to the selected link; and
populating a least a portion of the display with the content.
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9. A method including:
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assembling metadata for a content request, wherein the content request identifies a television (TV) channel and a program associated with that channel and wherein the program is not pre-tagged to identify its content;
dynamically submitting the metadata and the content request to a channel provider service that supplies the program;
formatting links for acquiring additional content related to the program, wherein the additional content is dynamically acquired in response to the assembled metadata; and
presenting the links on a display of the TV for viewing and selecting. - View Dependent Claims (10, 11, 12, 13, 14)
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15. A machine accessible medium having instructions embedded thereon, the instructions when accessed by a machine perform the method of:
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monitoring channel selections of a television (TV);
receiving an information request instruction from an input device to augment a desired program, which is associated with a desired channel, with additional content, wherein the desired program is not pre-tagged to identify its content;
dynamically assembling information related to the information request instruction; and
mining one or more external sources or networks for the additional content. - View Dependent Claims (16, 17, 18, 19, 20)
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21. A system including:
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a presenting service; and
an information augmentation service, wherein the information augmentation service is to augment a selected program, associated with a channel of a television (TV), with related content acquired from one or more external sources, and wherein the presenting service is to visually format a display of the TV with links and descriptive information associated with acquiring and viewing the related content within at least a portion of the display, and wherein the selected program is not pre-tagged for content identification. - View Dependent Claims (22, 23, 24, 25, 26)
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