Patent ID: 8782721

Claim:
A method comprising: receiving a live video stream and first closed captioning data associated with the live video stream at a computing device, wherein the first closed captioning data is represented in a first format; loading a first converter that is compatible with the first format to convert the first closed captioning data from the first format to a platform-independent format and to convert the first closed captioning data from the platform-independent format to a second format; transmitting the first closed captioning data in the second format to a first destination device; receiving second closed captioning data associated with the live video stream, wherein the second closed captioning data is represented in a third format; loading a second converter that is compatible with the third format to convert the second closed captioning data from the third format to the platform-independent format and to convert the second closed captioning data from the platform-independent format to a fourth format; and transmitting the second closed captioning data in the fourth format to a second destination device.