Patent ID: 7340763
Filing Date: 2008-03-04
Classification: H04N

Abstract:
1. A system, comprising: a television remote which has a first communication part, operating to communicate wirelessly to a television that is controlled by said television remote, said television remote having first buttons controlling at least a plurality of functions on the controlled television, and wherein the controlled television is separate from said television remote, said television remote mounted in a housing, which housing is totally separate from the television being communicated with and controlled by the remote, and said television remote also having a command which accesses information from a supplemental signal that represents a link to additional information, which link can be selected by actuation of said remote to find said additional information from a database that is separate from said remote, and where said additional information provides additional information about a television program which represents program content that has been received over a program content receiving channel and is being currently displayed on a display of the television, wherein said television remote also includes a second communication part, that operates to communicate wirelessly with a separate computer, to send said additional information to said separate computer indicative of said link having been selected and to cause display of said information from said supplemental signal on a display of the separate computer, and where said display of said separate computer is totally separate from the display of the television.