SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR RELATING TELEVISION PROGRAMMING AND ONLINE MEDIA CONTENT BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION

摘要

Systems and methods for marking events, including broadcast media events, in a context sensitive manner, and systems and methods for relating the marked events to online content. A content marking device (100) has a plurality of context sensitive event marker inputs (106). In response to user selections of the context sensitive event markers, an event record (104) is developed within the content device (100) comprising (i) source ID of the marked event (114), (ii) classification of the selected context sensitive event marker, and/or (iii) time (133, 134), channel (140) and date stamp data (136) associated with the marked event. The record (104) is downloaded to a central processing system (182) and used to identify online content that is related to the marked event. Website links (194) to the online content are delivered to a website accessible to the user of the content marking device (204).