Patent ID: 8539538

Claim:
A method of retrieving a hyperlink associated with a recorded program, the method performed by a device, the device coupled to at least one server on a network, the method comprising: identifying a channel that broadcasted the recorded program; recovering a destination address within the network associated with the identified channel; recovering from at least one server associated with the recovered destination address a universal start time corresponding to a start time of the broadcast of the program on the identified channel; recovering from the at least one server associated with the recovered destination address a universal time interval corresponding to a duration of the broadcast of the program on the identified channel; synchronizing the recovered universal start time and the recovered universal time interval of the broadcast program with a universal start time and a universal time interval associated with one or more hyperlinks associated with the recorded program according to a same universal time; and computing for the one or more hyperlinks, a relative start time and a relative time interval, the relative start time computed by subtracting the universal start time of the broadcast program from the universal start time associated with the one or more hyperlinks, wherein the relative start time, the relative time interval, and the destination address are stored in a local program timing table in the device.