READY ACCESS TO UNIFORM RESOURCE IDENTIFIERS THAT ARE ASSOCIATED WITH TELEVISION CONTENT
First Claim
1. A method comprising:
- automatically obtaining uniform resource identifiers (URIs) that point to web content and are associated with television content that has been presented to a viewer for viewing via customer premise equipment, wherein the URIs that are obtained are identified URIs;
receiving a request from a user terminal other than the customer premise equipment; and
in response to the request, providing a response including at least one of the URIs to the user terminal, wherein the user terminal presents the at least one of the URIs to the viewer as one or more of the URIs that were associated with the television content that has been viewed by the viewer.
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Abstract
The present invention provides a technique for making uniform resource identifiers (URIs) that are associated with television content that has been viewed by a viewer readily accessible to that viewer. Television content that is being viewed at any given time is monitored, and URIs that are associated with television content that has been viewed are automatically identified without human intervention and subsequently made available to the viewer via a content service. The content service may be a web server that is accessible by the viewer via a browser application running on the viewer'"'"'s communication terminal. The viewer may access the content service to retrieve the URIs, which may be used to retrieve web content associated with television content from an appropriate web server via the communication terminal.
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1. A method comprising:
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automatically obtaining uniform resource identifiers (URIs) that point to web content and are associated with television content that has been presented to a viewer for viewing via customer premise equipment, wherein the URIs that are obtained are identified URIs; receiving a request from a user terminal other than the customer premise equipment; and in response to the request, providing a response including at least one of the URIs to the user terminal, wherein the user terminal presents the at least one of the URIs to the viewer as one or more of the URIs that were associated with the television content that has been viewed by the viewer. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27)
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28. A system comprising:
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at least one communication interface; and a control system associated with the at least one communication interface and adapted to; automatically obtain uniform resource identifiers (URIs) that point to web content and are associated with television content that has been presented to a viewer for viewing via customer premise equipment, wherein the URIs that are obtained are identified URIs; receive a request from a user terminal other than the customer premise equipment; and in response to the request, provide a response including at least one of the URIs to the user terminal, wherein the user terminal presents the at least one of the URIs to the viewer as one or more of the URIs that were associated with the television content that has been viewed by the viewer. - View Dependent Claims (29, 30, 31)
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