Patent ID: 7009657
Filing Date: 2006-03-07
Classification: G06F,H04N

Abstract:
1. A system for the automatic collection and conditioning of closed caption text originating from multiple geographic locations comprising: (1) a remote capture client means having a tuner to receive at least one broadcast source, a decoder operatively connected to said tuner to decode closed caption text streams in said at least one broadcast source, and a text handler operatively connected to said decoder to write said decoded closed caption text streams to one or more closed caption text files; said closed captioned text files being derived from one or more television program segments captioned from one or more geographically diverse television signals; and (2) a central server means for conditioning for format consistency and parsing said text files; and (3) transmission means for transferring said text files from said remote capture client to said central server means, said transmission means being controlled by said remote capture client, whereby said text files are pushed by said remote capture client to said central server means.