Patent ID: 8645995

Claim:
A portable device for controlling a separate broadcast program receiver appliance, comprising: (i) a communications interface configured to be connected to a two-way wireless computer network; (ii) software instructions configured for accessing, via the communications interface, first program cue data corresponding to a given broadcast program; (iii) a receiving module configured for receiving second program cue data from a broadcast signal data, the second program cue data corresponding to a broadcast program accessed at the broadcast program receiver; and (iv) a display for visual presentation of incoming data received via the communications interface, wherein the incoming data is sent to the display based upon matching of the first and second program cue data, such that the visual presentation on the display of the portable device has content associated with the content of the broadcast program accessed at the broadcast program receiver, wherein the portable device is configured to control the separate broadcast program receiver appliance that is accessing the broadcast program, and to display content associated with the content of the broadcast program accessed at the separate broadcast program receiver.