Patent ID: 8515243

Claim:
A multimedia device for retrieving information for managing video data, the multimedia device comprising: a receiving unit configured to receive the video data; a user interface configured to facilitate interaction between a user and the multimedia device; an Internet interface configured to retrieve additional information through a network; a microprocessor configured to: retrieve linking information for associating a metadata set with the video data; retrieve a metadata indicator for indicating whether the metadata set exists in a stream including the linking information, the metadata set being additional information describing the video data, and the linking information being used for identifying the metadata set associated with the video data, wherein the metadata indicator is a flag, wherein the metadata indicator indicates that the metadata set associated with the video data exists in the stream when the metadata indicator has a first metadata indicator value, and wherein the metadata indicator indicates that the metadata set associated with the video data does not exist in the stream when the metadata indicator has a second metadata indicator value, wherein plural metadata sets are capable of being associated with a single video data; a decoding unit configured to decode the video data; and a display configured to output the video data and the additional information.