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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Sep. 08, 2015

Filed:

May. 10, 2012
Applicants:

Gerard Edwards, Lansing, NY (US);

Loraine Sanchez, San Antonio, TX (US);

Inventors:

Gerard Edwards, Lansing, NY (US);

Loraine Sanchez, San Antonio, TX (US);

Assignee:
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 5/445 (2011.01); H04N 7/173 (2011.01); G06F 17/30 (2006.01); H04N 21/414 (2011.01); H04N 21/442 (2011.01); H04N 21/466 (2011.01); H04N 21/658 (2011.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 7/17318 (2013.01); G06F 17/30867 (2013.01); H04N 21/41407 (2013.01); H04N 21/44222 (2013.01); H04N 21/4667 (2013.01); H04N 21/6582 (2013.01);
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, and provide 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 for ancillary information, and where the access information is associated with each of the plurality of sources and the ancillary information is at least one among a video blog, a pod cast or a website. Other embodiments are disclosed.


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