Patent ID: 8359399

Claim:
A method of delivering supplemental content associated with audio/visual content to a plurality of users of the audio/visual content, the method comprising: receiving a media stream at an interpreter device, wherein the media stream comprises both the audio/visual content and the supplemental content associated with the audio/video content, wherein the supplemental content is integrated with the audio/visual content in the media stream and wherein the supplemental content has a temporal relationship with the audio/visual content; providing the audio/visual content from the interpreter device to a first output device for presentation to the plurality of users; and broadcasting the supplemental content received in the media stream from the interpreter device to each of a plurality of second output devices that are separate from the first output device and that are each associated with at least one of the plurality of users; wherein the supplemental content is organized into segments that preserve the temporal relationship between the audio/visual content received in the media stream and the supplemental content received in the media stream such that each of the segments is broadcast to each of the second output devices for simultaneous presentation to each of the users associated with the second output devices in time synchronization with the simultaneous presentation of a corresponding portion of the audio/visual content by the first output device to the user, and wherein the supplemental content comprises expiration data that indicates an expiration time after which the supplemental content is no longer accessible.