| US 7,467,398 B2 | ||
| Apparatus and method of searching for desired television content | ||
| Craig William Fellenstein, Brookfield, Conn. (US); Doreen Galli, Smyrna, Ga. (US); and Rick Allen Hamilton, II, Charlottesville, Va. (US) | ||
| Assigned to International Business Machines Corproation, Armonk, N.Y. (US) | ||
| Filed on Mar. 21, 2002, as Appl. No. 10/105,124. | ||
| Prior Publication US 2003/0192050 A1, Oct. 09, 2003 | ||
| Int. Cl. G06F 3/00 (2006.01); G06F 13/00 (2006.01); H04N 5/445 (2006.01) | ||
| U.S. Cl. 725—53 [725/137; 725/142] | 10 Claims |
| 1. A method of identifying a real-time television signal of interest to a user, the method comprising:
the user entering a search parameter into a logical unit;
simultaneously buffering a plurality of audio voice streams of a plurality of real-time television signals in a plurality
of languages;
translating the plurality of audio voice streams into text associated with each of the plurality of real-time television signals
in said plurality of languages;
buffering the text into a lexical buffer:
searching said lexical buffer for the search parameter;
displaying a list of said plurality of real-time television signals in said plurality of languages in order of relevance to
the search parameter; and
the user selecting a first real-time television signal from the list, whereby the first real-time television signal is displayed
on a television in real-time;
wherein the user specifies said plurality of real-time television signals, an amount of buffering time to be allocated for
each of the plurality of real-time television signals, and a plurality of time periods for each of the plurality of real-time
television signals to be buffered.
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