Patent 8006268 was granted and assigned to Microsoft on August, 2011 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
Video signals broadcast on a multiplexed channel of a broadcast network are received and there is extract therefrom a closed captioning stream of textual data that is searched for occurrences of textual data matching one or more search parameters. A partial portion of the closed captioning stream of textual data that includes each of the occurrences of textual data that matches the one or more search parameters can be directed to a television receiver.