Patent ID: 8312497
Filing Date: 2012-11-13
Classification: H04N

Abstract:
1. A set-top box, comprising: a memory; a receiver interface to receive a broadcast signal; an output interface to send the broadcast signal to a display device; a closed-captioning decoder to access closed-captioning information including closed-captioning information from the broadcast signal and to produce an American standard code for information interchange character stream; a uniform resource locator processor to extract uniform resource locator data from the character stream and to store the uniform resource locator data in the memory; a second processor to process the uniform resource locator data from the memory, the second processor to generate a web page comprised of one or more selectable links organized in one or more categories by date, wherein a check box is associated with each of the one or more selectable links, and wherein the web page includes a first selectable option to enable each selectable link associated with a checked check box to be added to a uniform resource locator address book and the second processor to send the web page with the one or more selectable links via a local area network to a device coupled to the set-top box by the local area network in response to a request received from the device, wherein the request is sent in response to user input that requests web sites obtained from the broadcast signal, and wherein the device is different than the display device; and a web server to provide the web page to a network interface in response to a request received from the network interface.