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Systems and methods for acquiring, categorizing and delivering media in interactive media guidance applications

  • US 9,615,138 B2
  • Filed: 09/09/2016
  • Issued: 04/04/2017
  • Est. Priority Date: 10/06/2006
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A method for linking Internet videos with broadcast videos by relying on third party metadata, the method comprising:

  • identifying Internet videos available from an Internet media provider over the Internet; and

    for each respective Internet video of the identified Internet videos;

    receiving metadata corresponding to the respective Internet video from a third-party source that is different from the Internet media provider and different from a broadcast media provider,automatically comparing media guidance data corresponding to a broadcast video to the metadata corresponding to the respective Internet video,determining, based on the comparing, whether the respective Internet video is relevant to the broadcast video, andbased on determining that the respective Internet video is relevant to the broadcast video, linking the respective Internet video with the broadcast video by associating the metadata corresponding to the respective Internet video with the media guidance data corresponding to the broadcast video; and

    based on a user selection of an identifier corresponding to the media guidance data, generating for display, using the linking of the respective Internet video with the broadcast video, an option to view the respective Internet video.

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