Patent ID: 8015159

Claim:
A media monitoring system for receiving at least one video channel having corresponding closed captioned text in real time, comprising: a storage medium for containing at least one of stored search terms for conducting an alert search and provided search terms for conducting an archival search; a media management system for continuously storing all the data of the at least one video channel locally and for extracting the corresponding closed captioned text into decoded text, the decoded text being provided to a global storage database, the media management system having a search engine for comparing the decoded text against at least one of the stored search terms and the provided search terms to provide matching results during the alert search and the archival search, and an indexing engine for indexing units of the decoded text by time; and a media server pod for receiving the at least one video channel and for locally storing the data of the at least one video channel, the media server pod including a close caption decoder for extracting the corresponding closed captioning text into the decoded text, an index server for receiving the decoded text from the media server pod over a first network, the index servers having the index engine, and a web server including the global storage database for storing the decoded text received from the index servers over a second network, the web servers having the search engine and a search term database for storing the at least one of stored search terms and provided search terms, and a user access system for receiving and displaying the matching results, the user access system transmitting a request for stored data corresponding to specific units of the decoded text from the media management system, the media management system providing said stored data corresponding to specific units of the decoded text in response to the request.