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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 29, 2012
Filed:
Sep. 14, 2007
Gerard Edwards, Lansing, NY (US);
Loraine Sanchez, San Antonio, TX (US);
Gerard Edwards, Lansing, NY (US);
Loraine Sanchez, San Antonio, TX (US);
AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P., Atlanta, GA (US);
Abstract
A system that incorporates teachings of the present disclosure may include, for example, a set top box having a controller to present media content to a user, and provide the user with access to related media content based upon access information, where the related media content is determined based upon monitoring of the media content, where the related media content is retrieved based on a query of a plurality of sources over the Internet, and where the access information is associated with each of the plurality of sources. Other embodiments are disclosed.