Patent ID: 8917971

Claim:
A method comprising: detecting a primary user device within a proximity of a secondary user device; receiving, from the primary user device, an electronic communication at the secondary user device, wherein the electronic communication includes playback information about a primary content asset being accessed at the primary user device; in response to receiving the electronic communication and while the primary user device is within the proximity of the secondary user device, automatically searching, using the received playback information, a content listings database to identify a content listing that is relevant to the primary content asset, wherein the searching comprises: automatically computing, for each content listing in the database, a relevancy metric for a supplemental content asset associated with the respective content listing based on a characteristic of the primary content asset, and selecting, as the identified content listing, the content listing associated with the supplemental content asset for which the relevancy metric exceeds a threshold; retrieving the supplemental content asset associated with the identified content listing in response to selecting the identified content listing; and generating for display at the secondary user device, the retrieved supplemental content asset that is relevant to the primary content asset being accessed at the primary user device, based in part on the received playback information.