Patent ID: 6868415

Claim:
An information linking method for linking content of interest rendered by media to information related to the content of interest (this information is hereinafter referred to as reference information), using an information registering equipment, an information viewing equipment, an information search equipment, and a computer network, said information linking method comprising the steps wherein: said information registering equipment transmits a set of first content-identifying information to identify said content of interest and the reference information across the computer network to the information search equipment; said information search equipment registers the received set of the first content-identifying information and the reference information into a database; said information viewing equipment transmits second content-identifying information to identify said content of interest across the computer network to the information search equipment; and said information search equipment matches the received second content-identifying information with the first content-identifying information registered in the database and, if there is a match, transmits the reference information from the set in which the reference information joined with the first content-identifying information across the computer network to the information viewing equipment.