Patent ID: 7861264

Claim:
A television receiver for receiving a television signal and acquiring information via a communication network, the television receiver comprising: television broadcast receiving means for obtaining a television program based on the television signal and for displaying the obtained television program on a television display screen; numerical quantity acquisition means for acquiring, from one of the television signal and program list information that is acquired via the communication network, a numerical quantity of available program-related information related to a television program and acquirable via the communication network, such that the numerical quantity represents a specific number identifying a number of pieces of program-related information available and related to the television program; numerical quantity display means for simultaneously displaying, for each television program of a plurality of television programs, a respective numerical quantity acquired by the numerical quantity acquisition means, as a numeric character, together with a title of each respective television program, each respective numerical quantity and the title of each respective television program being simultaneously displayed in a program list displayed on the television display screen, such that the displayed numeric character represents the specific number identifying the number of pieces of the program-related information available and related to each television program of the plurality of television programs; input means for accepting, from a user, a selection of a television program, of which program-related information is to be acquired; information acquisition means for acquiring, from an address server that (i) is connected to the information acquisition means via the communication network and (ii) accumulates address information of program-related information, address information only of the program-related information related to the television program selected by the user via the input means, and for acquiring the program-related information related to the television program selected by the user via the input means, the program-related information being acquired by utilizing the acquired address information; and information display means for displaying, on the television display screen, the program-related information acquired by the information acquisition means.