Patent ID: 8539540

Claim:
A method of parsing, displaying and analyzing interactive overlay data in a video data stream that is transmitted to set top boxes for display comprising: downloading N-bytes from said data stream; identifying start bytes in said N-bytes of said data stream; dividing said N-bytes into sections of said data stream; identifying enhance television binary interchange format (EBIF) overlay data in said sections that describes an interactive overlay; identifying EBIF EISS-signaling data in said sections that comprises command signals that control timing and duration of a display of said EBIF overlay data; identifying program enhancement identification data (PEID) associated with said EBIF overlay data and said EBIF EISS-signaling data; storing said EBIF overlay data, said EBIF EISS-signaling data and said PEID that is associated with said EBIF overlay data and said EBIF EISS-signaling data; displaying said EBIF overlay data and said EBIF EISS-signaling data with said PEID that is associated with said EBIF overlay data and said EBIF EISS-signaling data to provide a visual display of said EBIF overlay data and said EBIF EISS-signaling data that is associated with said PEID; automatically generating an alarm whenever said EBIF overlay data is corrupted or said EBIF EISS-signaling data is corrupted.