AUTOMATED REAL-TIME CONTINUOUS SEARCHING OF CLOSED-CAPTIONED TELEVISION PROGRAMMING

systems and methods are presented that automatically continuously search closed-captioned television programming in real time for information requested by a user. Users enter information (e.g., a keyword) to be searched for preferably at a Web site. Closed-captioned television programming is then se...

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Hauptverfasser: IVES, DAVID J, HAYTER, JAMES H
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Sprache:eng ; fre
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Zusammenfassung:systems and methods are presented that automatically continuously search closed-captioned television programming in real time for information requested by a user. Users enter information (e.g., a keyword) to be searched for preferably at a Web site. Closed-captioned television programming is then searched in real time for the requested information. Upon finding the requested information, the user is notified in real time by email, voice-mail, or other suitable means. The notification includes the name, broadcast time, and channel of the program in which the information was found. upon notification, users can access a video segment of, or additional textual information from, that program.