Patent ID: 8005826
Filing Date: 2011-08-23
Classification: G06F,H04N

Abstract:
1. A method for obtaining media-related information, comprising: receiving a request at a central information provider from a client device over a network; identifying the request as media-related based on the presence in the request of terms that relate to one or more media-related objects; in response to identifying the request as media-related, determining that one or more additional terms have a correlation with one or more of the terms from the request, wherein the one or more additional terms are terms that have different word roots than the one or more terms from the request and are terms that have been determined to occur frequently in combination with one or more terms from the request; in response to identifying the request as media-related, querying, with one or more of the terms from the request and the additional terms, one or more media-specific corpuses that provide media-specific results; in response to identifying the request as media-related, querying, with one or more of the terms from the request and a predetermined term descriptive of media, one or more non-media-directed corpuses that provide non-media-specific results, wherein the predetermined term limits the non-media-specific results to media-related results; and in response to identifying the request as media-related, formatting the media-specific results and the media-related results differently than if the request was not identified as media-related including formatting and transmitting the media-specific results received from the media-specific corpuses and the media-related results received from the non-media-specific corpuses for display as search results and as a program guide grid, wherein: