Patent ID: 8839307

Claim:
A method, in a user's local television system, for responding to user selection of an object in television programming, the method comprising: in a user's local television system, at least: determining an identity of a user-selected object of the plurality of user-selectable objects in the television program being presented to a user; determining, based at least in part on the determined object identity, one or more actions to take with regard to the identified user-selected object, wherein determining the one or more actions comprises determining a first plurality of search terms associated with the identified user-selected object, wherein determining the one or more actions comprises determining to search, based at least in part on the determined first plurality of search terms, a plurality of devices of the user's local television system for information associated with the identified user-selected object; receiving data comprising the information corresponding to user-selectable objects in the television program; storing the information in a memory of the user's local television system indexed by a second plurality of search terms; and performing the determined one or more actions.