Patent ID: 6710812
Filing Date: 2004-03-23
Classification: G06F,H04N

Abstract:
In a system for the aggregation and selective retrieval of television word content from closed captioned text streams, a search results database maintained on an inquiry client, the database being returned to the inquiry client from a central server, the database comprising:all closed captioning text derived from one or more television program segments captured from one or more geographically diverse television signals, said closed captioning text being decoded and parsed remotely from the inquiry client, and being conditioned remotely from the inquiry client to have consistent formatting regardless of their origin, whereby said decoded, parsed, conditioned, consistent formatted, closed captioning text is: (a) returned to the inquiry client by the central server as a result of a user inquiry submitted to the central server, (b) maintained by the inquiry client, and (c) readily user readable.