Patent ID: 8887200

Claim:
A method of providing access to related content comprising the activities of: tuning a receiver to a desired program, the desired program displayed on a primary display device; retrieving information via content processor that identifies the desired program from an electronic program guide; parsing the retrieved information from the electronic program guide to identify seed terms to generate an internet search for additional episodes of the desired program, the seed terms generated from characteristic data including metadata marked by a content provider or content creator, the marked metadata indicating that a particular additional episode of the desired program is important to understand the desired program; automatically searching locations on a communication network, via an internet interface, for the additional episodes of the desired program using the seed terms of the retrieved information; and providing links corresponding to the additional episodes, via a user interface display processor, the provided links displayable on a secondary display device, the secondary display device having a browser pointed to a webserver of the internet interface, the provided links enabling access to the additional episodes of the desired program.