Patent ID: 7904503

Claim:
A method to enhance rendering of a content item, the method comprising: receiving, at a server system, a portion of the content item that can be played by a client system from the client system, the received portion of the content item being distinct from an identifier associated with the content item, the content item comprising audio and/or video content, the portion of the content item is not accompanied by an identifier suitable for interrogating a database to determine further information associated with the content item; processing, at the server system, the received portion of the content item to determine, from the received portion of the content item, the identifier associated with the content item suitable for interrogating a database to determine further information associated with the content item, the processing comprising computing a hash value for the received portion of the content item, the determined identifier comprising the computed hash value; obtaining further information on the content item using the determined identifier, the obtaining comprising searching the database using the computed hash value; and transmitting the further information to the client system.