Patent ID: 7581228

Claim:
Apparatus comprising: hardware for receiving DVB (digital video broadcasting), said hardware comprising set-top box (STB) circuitry, a tuner, a demodulator and interface circuitry, said DVB including service information (SI); a parser for parsing video and audio content of the DVB; and a capture driver adapted to extract the SI of the DVB, wherein said capture driver is adapted to take a kernel stream of data from the DVB and pass the data through a capture source filter via a kernel stream proxy, and wherein said data that is extracted from the DVB comprises IP (internet protocol) data over DVB comprising at least one of bit-streams, byte-streams, headers of SI, MPEG files and packets, and e-mail for use with at least one of graphic applications, HyperText Markup Language (HTML) document information, Uniform Resource Locators (URLs), website addresses, java scripts, JPEG, browser related actions, e-commerce related actions, and e-mail related actions.