Patent ID: 8019810

Claim:
A method of displaying items from an RSS feed on a home entertainment television display, comprising: at a television receiver and tuner, receiving and tuning a television program; at the home entertainment television display, displaying the television program; registering the RSS feed with an RSS aggregator, the RSS aggregator being operatively coupled to the home entertainment television display for display of RSS feed items; at the RSS aggregator, polling the RSS feed for RSS feed items, where the registering is carried out by identification of an RSS feed on the basis of a location identifier for a location where the method is carried out, and where the location identifier comprises a GPS coordinate; determining if the RSS feed contains an item that has been newly added since a preceding poll of the RSS feed, where determining if the RSS feed contains an item that has been newly added since a preceding poll of the RSS feed comprises comparing an item's time stamp with a stored time stamp, where the determining if the RSS feed contains an item that has been newly added since a preceding poll of the RSS feed comprises comparing an item's time stamp with a stored time stamp associated with an item being displayed, where the newly added item is the only item from the RSS feed displayed on the home entertainment television display at any one time; if the RSS feed contains an item that has been newly added since a preceding poll of the RSS feed, displaying the newly added item on the home entertainment television display, where the item is displayed in a scrolling ticker format; and where the registering is carried out by commands from a remote commander that identify a universal resource locator associated with the RSS feed, and where the registering is carried out by identification of an RSS feed on the basis of a manufacturer programmed universal resource locator.