Delivering enhanced content to broadcast media receivers with internet connection and enhancing user experience

In a system comprising a category 1, 2, 3 or 4 host device having a microprocessor, memory, user interface controls, display and audio circuitry to playback audio or video program data and metadata to a user of said host device and having “circuitry” comprising any combination of hardware, software and/or firmware to control said host device and having circuitry and software for making bidirectional digital communications over the internet or a Short Message Service (hereafter SMS) data path either directly or through a cellular system data path or through a wifi hot spot or indirectly through a computer or other device to which said host device is docked and which has an internet connection, the improvement comprising:

• a broadcast receiver in or coupled to said host device that has circuitry including client application software that functions to control said broadcast receiver to receive auxiliary metadata broadcast in band or out of band with a primary media program broadcast using any of the following standards:
• FM+RBDS/RDS or IBOC or DAB or ATSC, or Mobile ATSC or DVB or any data broadcast protocol or standard developed in the future which allows metadata to be broadcast either in band or out of band or both along with digital or analog primary media programming, said receiver system also having circuitry including said client application software which functions to provide said received primary media program and said received metadata to said host device for display and/or playback and which can control said host device to make upstream communications over the internet or said SMS data path;
• and wherein the term “circuitry” used anywhere in this claim or its dependent claims means any combination of hardware circuits, software and/or firmware controlling hardware circuits, the combination being able to perform the stated function(s).