Patent ID: 7039933

Claim:
A system for incorporating local content into a communication stream, comprising: a) means for transmitting a communication stream including program content to a receiver; b) means for inserting in the program content one or more first tags and one or more second tags; c) means for capturing the program content at the receiver and storing the one or more first tags and the one or more second tags in tables; d) means for processing the one or more second tags in the tables to modify at least a portion of at least one of the one or more first tags in the tables; and e) means for processing the one or more first tags in the tables to insert local contest in place of the program content for re-transmission to the local area served by the receiver, wherein the processing means comprises: a supervisor for scanning the tables; and means for detecting a scheduled time in the program content for initiating and transmitting local action described in the one or more first tags.