Altering presentation of received content based on use of closed captioning elements as reference locations

摘要

A content receiver receives an captioning element and positional information regarding segments of a content instance. The captioning element corresponds to a component of captioning data included in content that can be utilized with the positional information to locate where the segments stop and/or start. The content receiver analyzes the content based on the captioning element and the positional information and alters how the content will be presented. Such alteration may involve skipping and/or deleting segments, starting/stopping presentation of content other than at the beginning and/or end of the content, altering recording timers, and/or replacing segments with alternative segments. In some implementations, the content may be recorded as part of recording multiple content instances received via at least one broadcast from a content provider wherein the multiple content instances are all included in a same frequency band of the broadcast and are all encoded utilizing a same control word.

主权项

1. A television receiver, comprising:
a tuner; one or more processors; and a non-transitory computer-readable storage media communicatively readable by the one or more processors and having stored therein processor-readable instructions which, when executed by the one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to:
record multiple instances of content via the tuner from a content provider, wherein
the multiple instances of content are multiplexed, broadcast during a same period of time, and are selected for recording by the content provider;receive closed captioning elements via the tuner, wherein the closed captioning elements correspond to an instance of content of the recorded multiple instances of content;receive positional information indicative of a segment of the instance of content for playback based on the closed captioning elements;analyze the instance of content to identify the segment of the instance of content based on the closed captioning elements and the positional information; andalter presentation of the instance of content based on the identified segment of the instance of content such that less than all of the instance of content is presented.