Patent ID: 8271341

Claim:
A media content delivery method, comprising: using a first device to receive and process broadcasted media content; while the first device is receiving and processing the broadcasted media content, using the first device to transmit to a server a request for a media content item associated with the broadcasted media content, wherein the request for the media content item includes a device identifier associated with the first device and/or a user identifier associated with a user of the first device, and the server is configured such that after receiving the request, the server (a) uses the device identifier and/or the user identifier that was included in the request for the media content item to select a delivery address to which to send a response, wherein the selected delivery address is associated with a second device that is different than the first device and (b) sends to the selected delivery address the response, wherein the response comprises (i) a message comprising a link associated with the media content item and/or (ii) the media content item itself.