Patent ID: 8510453

Claim:
A method of providing suggested content, comprising: employing a processor in a consumer electronic (CE) device for: providing an information gatherer for identifying information comprising context related to user activities and content available on the local network including the current media content being accessed by the user, of interest to the user, wherein the local network comprises a home network including the consumer electronic device, and identifying one or more Internet sources that contain related information to the identified information, wherein the Internet sources are external to the local network; providing an extractor for extracting data related to keywords associated with said identified information by using the keywords associated with the identified information to construct a query for querying the identified Internet sources, wherein the extractor includes plug-ins for extracting information from Internet structured data sources, Internet unstructured data sources, and Internet semi-structure data sources; and providing a correlator for determining correlations between the identified information and the data extracted from the identified Internet sources; determining suggested media content based on the determined correlations between the identified information and the data extracted from the identified Internet sources; removing media content from the suggested content based on content already available within the local network: and providing remaining suggested media content to a user for selection wherein the user is provided with relevant suggestions for additional media content different than that currently being accessed and that is not already present on the local network to assist a user to search for information relevant to the user with reduced query inputs to a remote control unit.