Patent ID: 8863185

Claim:
A system, comprising: a media content processing device configured to provide media content to a display device; and an adjunct computing device in communication with the media content processing device and configured to: receive interactive program guide data that corresponds to instances of the media content, receive social information associated with an account of a social network, the social information including a number of friends of the account that are viewing each instance of the media content, and a number of friends that have joined a chat room for each instance of the media content, display a first interface that presents the interactive program guide data augmented with the social information, including for each instance of the interactive program guide data for which a corresponding instance of the media content is being viewed by at least one friend a popularity indication indicative of the number of friends viewing the corresponding instance of the media content, and for each instance of the interactive program guide data for which at least one friend has joined the chat room for the corresponding instance of the media content a popularity indication indicative of the number of friends that have joined the chat room, include a new message indicator for each instance of the interactive program guide data that notifies when additional content is available from the friends in the chat room for the corresponding instance of the media content, receive a command that identifies a particular instance of the interactive program guide data from the first interface, display a second interface, in response to the command, that presents a social interaction display associated with the particular instance of the interactive program guide data, wherein the social interaction display is based at least in part on a subset of the social information that augments the particular instance, determine, in response to the command, whether an automatic tuning feature is activated, and if the automatic tuning feature is activated, tune the media content processing device to a particular instance of the media content that corresponds to the particular instance of the interactive program guide data.