Patent ID: 7467398

Claim:
A method of identifying a real-time television signal of interest to a user, the method comprising: the user entering a search parameter into a logical unit; simultaneously buffering a plurality of audio voice streams of a plurality of real-time television signals in a plurality of languages; translating the plurality of audio voice streams into text associated with each of the plurality of real-time television signals in said plurality of languages; buffering the text into a lexical buffer: searching said lexical buffer for the search parameter; displaying a list of said plurality of real-time television signals in said plurality of languages in order of relevance to the search parameter; and the user selecting a first real-time television signal from the list, whereby the first real-time television signal is displayed on a television in real-time; wherein the user specifies said plurality of real-time television signals, an amount of buffering time to be allocated for each of the plurality of real-time television signals, and a plurality of time periods for each of the plurality of real-time television signals to be buffered.