Patent ID: 8392946

Claim:
A method of recommending local and remote content, comprising: receiving, at a television apparatus, a first set of content items and linking information linking each of the content items of the first set to a respective subset of the first set; providing a second set of further content items, the content items of the second set being locally available at the television apparatus; and determining, via a processor, for each content item in a unified set including the first and second sets further linking information linking the content item to a further subset from the unified set; wherein for a certain content item of the first set, the further subset is determined by adding content items of the second set to the respective subset of the certain content item, the content items added being determined by comparing meta data associated with the certain content item with meta data respectively associated with all content items of the second set, wherein the content items added to the respective subset of the certain content item are determined by calculating, for each of the content items of the second set, a score of match of the meta data associated with a respective content item of the second set with the meta data associated with the certain content item, and by comparing the score of match to a threshold.