Systems and methods for automated extraction of closed captions in real time or near real-time and tagging of streaming data for advertisements

1. A method for extracting complete captions from fragmented audio captions, the method steps comprising:

extracting caption fragments from a broadcast;

correctly sequencing the caption fragments by matching fragment overlaps;

eliminating redundancies;

assembling the caption fragments into a single transcript;

thereby providing a more complete captions transcript from fragmented captions transcripts.

2. The method of claim 1 , wherein the steps are repeated for at least two broadcasts.

3. The method of claim 2 , further comprising the steps of:

aggregating the transcripts in a database;

indexing the database content;

searching the transcripts for a mention of at least one target, thereby creating target mention results, wherein the at least one target includes at least one keyword, at least one concept, and combinations thereof;

analyzing the target mention results for desired content;

indexing into the database to extract the desired content;

thereby providing a method for quickly finding and accessing desired content from the broadcasts.

4. The method of claim 1 , wherein the broadcast is any voice broadcast.

5. The method of claim 1 , wherein the extraction capability is embedded in a device selected from the group consisting of a personal computer (PC), a television (TV), a personal video recorder (PVR), a digital video recorder (DVR), a system on a chip (SOC) and a mobile device.

6. The method of claim 1 , further including the step of adding at least one Advertisement Tag Code to electronically mark an advertisement or target content.

7. The method of claim 6 , wherein the at least one Advertisement Tag Code is encrypted.

8. The method of claim 6 , wherein the at least one Advertisement Tag Code is visible or invisible.

9. The method of claim 6 , wherein the at least one Advertisement Tag Code is at the beginning and at the end of the advertisement.

10. The method of claim 6 , wherein the Advertisement Tag Code is encoded in a method selected from the group consisting of VBI or closed-caption stream or live Internet video.

11. The method of claim 1 , further including the step of creating captions for un-captioned audio content.

12. The method of claim 1 , wherein a local machine is provided running a non-transitory computer-readable storage medium with at least one executable program stored thereon; the at least one executable program performing the step of extracting the caption fragments.

13. The method of claim 3 , wherein the step of analyzing further includes determining an earned media and a paid media of the at least one target.

14. The method of claim 3 , wherein the step of analyzing further includes categorizing the at least one target mentions into positive, negative, neutral and unknown categories.

15. The method of claim 3 , wherein the step of analyzing further includes linking the target mention results to other social media and digital media target mention results.

16. The method of claim 15 , wherein the step of analyzing further includes metrics comparing the target mention results to other social media and digital media target mention results.

17. The method of claim 16 , wherein the step of analyzing further includes a predetermined time.

18. The method of claim 1 , wherein the broadcast is a video broadcast.

19. The method of claim 1 , wherein the step of extracting occurs

in near real-time; and

further including the step of storing, indexing and retrieving the caption fragments in and from a database.

20. The method of claim 1 , further comprising the steps of:

monitoring the transcripts for target mentions;

categorizing the target mentions into positive, negative, neutral and unknown categories;

linking the target mentions in real-time to determine whether the target mentions trigger a spike in social media or digital media;

visualizing the target mention results and analyzing the target mention results for trends;

responding to the social media or the digital media with interest with measured response based on the target mention results;

measuring an impact of the measured response;

thereby managing communication through mass media to increase the target mentions.

21. The method of claim 5 , further including:

authenticating the device.