Patent ID: 7210142

Claim:
A method for obtaining information related to an XM radio broadcast, comprising: receiving at a client device, from an XM radio, service information related to an XM radio broadcast, the service information containing at least ant of: product identification, artist name, song name, broadcast name, the client device being configured with a firewall; receiving at the client device, from a user input device, a signal representing the service information; sending at least portions of the service information to a server computer over the Internet; correlating the service information to information related to the service information; receiving, at a client browser plug-in associated with the client device, at least an identification of an Internet site ax which the information related to the service information can be located; and using the identification of an Internet site, causing a browser associated with the client browser plug-in to retrieve the information related to the service information without causing the firewall to block the information related to the service information.