Patent ID: 8437617

Claim:
A method for processing an audio/video stream, the method comprising: providing an audio/video stream including at least one segment of a show, at least one interstitial of the show and closed captioning data; receiving location information for the audio/video stream, the location information including a text string associated with a particular video location within the audio/video stream, and the location information including offset data relative to the particular video location, wherein the location information is received separately from the audio/video stream; processing the closed captioning data to locate an instance of the text string in the closed captioning data, and to locate a beginning of the instance of the text string in the closed captioning data; identifying a text string beginning location of the audio/video stream, the identified text string beginning location corresponding to the beginning of the text string, wherein the particular video location corresponds to the identified text string beginning location; utilizing the offset data relative to the particular video location, and the identified text string beginning location, to identify boundaries of a segment of the show to be presented and boundaries of an interstitial within the audio/video stream; outputting the segment of the show for presentation by a display device; modifying a volume of audio data corresponding with the interstitial to obtain a modified volume segment of interstitial content; and outputting the modified volume segment of interstitial content for presentation by the display device.