Patent ID: 8286215

Claim:
In an interactive television system that is configured for displaying television programs and corresponding data, a method for pausing the display of a television program that is displayed at the television system in response to a selection of a network address of the corresponding data, the method comprising the acts of: displaying a television program at the interactive television system while the television program is being broadcast, the television program being displayed with content comprising a network address of corresponding data; as a television program is being displayed, receiving input selecting the network address; in response to the input, accessing data corresponding to the network address; automatically pausing the display of the television program in response to the input selecting the network address and in response to obtaining the corresponding data, while the television program is being broadcast, by recording a signal in which the television program is encoded on a recording medium, and so as to enable subsequent viewing of the paused television program in a time-shifted manner; as the display of the television program is paused, displaying the corresponding data; subsequently resuming the display of the television program by accessing the signal from the recording medium in the sequence in which the signal was recorded on the recording medium, such that the television program is displayed at the point at which the television program was paused; and storing the corresponding data in memory such that the data can be retrieved from memory during the act of accessing the data.