Patent ID: 8438589

Claim:
A method comprising: capturing from the digital television (DTV) an on-screen display being rendered by the DTV device, the on-screen display generated by an access device in response to a program selection event, wherein the access device is a target of a detected remote control command that triggered the program selection event and is separate from the DTV device, the captured on-screen display being a video frame included in a program selected by the program selection event; decoding, by the DTV device, the captured on-screen display to generate metadata for the program selected by the program selection event, wherein metadata is provided for the selected program by a service provider and is restricted to the access device by the service provider of DTV programming; storing, by the DTV device, the metadata in a database included in the DTV device; and generating, by the DTV device, a user interface using the metadata stored in the database that is different from the user interface generated by the access device.