Patent ID: 7353166

Claim:
Method for providing audio or subtitle translation data on demand to at least one of a receiver and a video device, the method including the following steps: said at least one of receiver and video device receiving broadcast video data for a specific program or movie together with at least one of original audio data and subtitle data related to a given language, which video data include: first identification information data identifying said specific program or movie video data; detecting a user-performed selection of a preferred language that is different from said given language; detecting a user-performed selection of a second preferred language that is different from said given language and said preferred language; providing second identification information corresponding to said preferred language and said second preferred language; transmitting automatically-third identification information data derived automatically from said first and second identification information data to a server for requesting, based on said third identification information data from said at least one of receiver and video device, a desired at least one of audio translation data set and subtitle translation data set corresponding to said video data and corresponding to said preferred language and said second preferred language; wherein said server will transmit said at least one audio translation data set and subtitle translation data set corresponding to said second preferred language if at least one audio translation data set and subtitle translation data set corresponding to said preferred language is unavailable; receiving in said at least one of receiver and video device-said selected at least one of audio and subtitle translation data set corresponding to said third identification information data; reproducing automatically data of said received audio or subtitle translation data set together with said video data that was originally received in said at least one receiver and video device in a temporally synchronized manner, instead of reproducing said original audio data related to a given language with said video data, wherein said reproduced at least one of audio translation data and subtitle translation data set represents, corresponding to at least one of said preferred language and said second preferred language, a language translation of said at least one of original language audio and subtitle data, otherwise if said preferred language and said second preferred language are not available, said reproducing step uses said audio or subtitled translation data set originally received.