Patent ID: 7502589
Filing Date: 2009-03-10
Classification: H03J,H04H

Abstract:
1. A method of parsing and characterizing text data from a broadcast signal, said broadcast signal having program data and supplemental data associated therewith, comprising the steps of: receiving a broadcast signal having supplemental broadcast data with associated text data; comparing said received text data to at least one known text string, to distinguish from said text data at least one recognized data string and at least one unrecognized data string, wherein said at least one recognized data string is a match to said at least one known text string; assigning a characterization to said at least one unrecognized data string to define at least one characterized data string, creating an association in a memory between said at least one characterized data string and said broadcast signal. wherein, in the step of comparing, said recognized data string is the text string “UP NEXT ON”, “/”, “ . . . ”, “(”,“)”, “[”, “]”, “<”, “>”, “PLAYING SONG”, “PLAYING ARTIST”, “NOW PLAYING”, “-”, or “!”.