Patent ID: 8452228
Filing Date: 2013-05-28
Classification: H04H,H04M,H04W

Abstract:
1. A media device comprising: a broadcast receiver for receiving broadcast media and associated broadcast media data from a plurality of broadcast sources, the broadcast receiver being tunable to a first broadcast source, a data store for storing a list of contact identifiers, each contact identifier being associated with one of the plurality of broadcast sources, a user interface for: i) providing a prompt to a user to enable the user to initiate contact with the first broadcast source, and ii) receiving a user indication to initiate contact with the first broadcast source, and a transceiver for initiating the contact with the first broadcast source by sending a communications session request via a communications network to the first broadcast source including a first contact identifier associated with the first broadcast source, wherein the media device uses at least a portion of the received broadcast media data associated with the received broadcast media from the first broadcast source to retrieve the first contact identifier from a media server.