Patent ID: 9131280
Filing Date: 2015-09-08
Classification: H04N

Abstract:
1. A method of customizing the display of information supplied from a remote source and exhibiting a data structure, comprising: transmitting to the remote source profile data associated with a user's display device identifying predetermined display characteristics of the user's display device, including display format, of the user's display device; receiving from said remote source descriptive closed caption data disposed in a predetermined location in the data structure of the supplied information, the descriptive closed caption data including subtitle textual information representing subtitle text in plural different languages, the descriptive closed caption data identifying a display format that is adaptable to match the format of the user's display device identified by the display format included in the profile data; parsing from the received information said descriptive closed caption data; recognizing a predetermined display characteristic in the parsed data; selecting from the received descriptive closed caption data one of said different languages corresponding to a particular language identified by a user preference in the profile data transmitted to the remote source; and controlling a user's display device with said parsed data to display the subtitle text in the selected language in a predetermined format at a predetermined location in accordance with the predetermined display characteristic of the user's display device.