Patent ID: 8140954

Claim:
A method for use on a personal mobile computer device for autonomously displaying to a user of said personal mobile computer device a time-stamped captioning stream synchronized with a broadcast program received and displayed on a separate program receiver, said method comprising the steps of: connecting to a communications network; identifying a broadcast program displayed on a program receiver in a public location, wherein the broadcast program and the program receiver are separate from the personal mobile computer device; retrieving from a captioning server time-stamped captioning data and synchronization data associated with the broadcast program displayed on the separate program receiver; disconnecting from the communications network after the data is retrieved; automatically converting the time-stamped captioning data and synchronization data to a time-stamped captioning stream synchronized with the broadcast program on the separate program receiver; and displaying on the personal mobile computer device to said user said time-stamped captioning stream in synchronism with the display of the broadcast program on the separate program receiver.