Patent ID: 8364015

Claim:
A method of receiving and displaying data, the method comprising: converting an aspect ratio of a program to provide one of horizontal space bars or vertical space bars; receiving data from a transport stream; storing the received data in memory; determining when the data is not authorized by a service provider; providing a composite view of the program including the data on a display screen upon reaching an insert cue embedded in the program by retrieving the received data from the memory, wherein the insert cue is linked to a digital program insertion tag in the transport stream, wherein the data is composited into at least one of the horizontal space bars or vertical space bars on the display screen, wherein the data in one bar is different from the data in other bar, and wherein the timing of the data insertion is tied to digital program insertion (DPI) ad-insertion tags in the transport stream; and covering, when the data is not authorized, the data composited into the at least one of the horizontal space bars or vertical space bars, wherein covering the data comprises graphically rendering a graphical bar over an area that is intended for the data to prevent the data from being displayed.