Customized captioning for client device

1. A method comprising:

receiving a request for content from a client device, wherein the client device comprises a mobile device, wherein the request is received at a customer premise equipment device and the content comprises caption data, and wherein the customer premise equipment device comprises a set-top box;

identifying, at the customer premise equipment device, the client device from which the request for content is received;

determining that caption settings associated with the client device are stored at the customer premise equipment device, wherein the caption settings comprise one or more customized parameter settings that are associated with one or more parameters that control one or more visual characteristics associated with a display of caption content at the client device including when to hide and when to display a caption window displaying the caption data, and wherein the caption settings are configured at the customer premise equipment device before the request for content is received from the client device, the configuration of the caption settings comprising:

receiving one or more caption parameters to be associated with the client device, including when to hide and when to display a caption window displaying the caption data;

generating a caption preview, the caption preview comprising a display of caption content that is formatted according to the caption settings associated with the client device, thereby providing a display of the caption content as the caption content would be perceived by a user when the caption content is displayed at the client device;

outputting the caption preview to a display device that is connected to the customer premise equipment device, wherein the display device is a different device than the client device;

receiving confirmation of user-approval of the displayed caption preview; and

upon confirmation of the user-approval of the displayed caption preview, saving the association between the caption settings and the client device; and

in response to determining that caption settings associated with the client device are stored at the customer premise equipment device:

parsing the caption data from the content, wherein the caption data is parsed from a table associated with the content, and wherein the caption data comprises a caption service descriptor and one or more caption commands;

generating edited caption data by overwriting one or more of the caption commands according to the caption settings associated with the client device;

consolidating the edited caption data with the requested content; and

outputting the consolidated edited caption data and requested content to the client device.

2. The method of claim 1 , wherein the caption settings associated with the client device are determined based upon one or more caption parameters input at the customer premise equipment device.

3. The method of claim 1 , wherein the caption settings associated with the client device are retrieved from a data store, the data store comprising caption settings previously applied to caption data associated with the client device.

4. The method of claim 1 , further comprising:

storing the edited caption data as preferred caption data associated with the client device.

5. A customer premise equipment device comprising:

an interface configured to be used to receive a request for content from a client device, wherein the client device comprises a mobile device, wherein the content comprises caption data;

a caption editing module configured to:

identify the client device from which the request for content is received;

determine that caption settings associated with the client device are stored at the customer premise equipment device, wherein the caption settings comprise one or more customized parameter settings that are associated with one or more parameters that control one or more visual characteristics associated with a display of caption content at the client device including when to hide and when to display a caption window displaying the caption data, and wherein the caption settings are configured at the customer premise equipment device before the request for content is received from the client device, the configuration of the caption settings comprising:

receive one or more caption parameters to be associated with the client device including when to hide and when to display a caption window displaying the caption data;

generate a caption preview, the caption preview comprising a display of caption content that is formatted according to the caption settings associated with the client device, thereby providing a display of the caption content as the caption content would be perceived by a user when the caption content is displayed at the client device;

output the caption preview to a display device that is connected to the customer premise equipment device, wherein the display device is a different device than the client device;

receive confirmation of user-approval of the displayed caption preview;

upon confirmation of the user-approval of the displayed caption preview, save the association between the caption settings and the client device; and

in response to determining that caption settings associated with the client device are stored at the customer premise equipment device:

parse the caption data from the content, wherein the caption data is parsed from a table associated with the content, and wherein the caption data comprises a caption service descriptor and one or more caption commands;

generate edited caption data by overwriting one or more of the caption commands according to the caption settings associated with the client device; and

consolidate the edited caption data with the requested content; and

an output interface configured to be used to output the consolidated edited caption data and requested content to the client device.

6. The apparatus of claim 5 , wherein the caption settings associated with the client device are determined based upon user-input, the user-input comprising one or more caption parameters.

7. The apparatus of claim 5 , wherein the caption settings associated with the client device are retrieved from a data store comprising caption settings previously applied to caption data associated with the client device.

8. The apparatus of claim 5 , further comprising:

a data store configured to store the edited caption data as preferred caption data associated with the client device.

9. One or more non-transitory computer readable media having instructions operable to cause one or more processors to perform operations comprising:

receiving a request for content from a client device, wherein the client device comprises a mobile device, wherein the request is received at a customer premise equipment device and the content comprises caption data, and wherein the customer premise equipment device comprises a set-top box;

identifying, at the customer premise equipment device, the client device from which the request for content is received;

determining that caption settings associated with the client device are stored at the customer premise equipment device, wherein the caption settings comprise one or more customized parameter settings associated with one or more parameters that control one or more visual characteristics associated with a display of caption content at the client device including when to hide and when to display a caption window displaying the caption data, and wherein the caption settings are configured at the customer premise equipment device before the request for content is received from the client device, the configuration of the caption settings comprising:

receiving one or more caption parameters to be associated with the client device, including when to hide and when to display a caption window displaying the caption data;

generating a caption preview, the caption preview comprising a display of caption content that is formatted according to the caption settings associated with the client device, thereby providing a display of the caption content as the caption content would be perceived by a user when the caption content is displayed at the client device;

outputting the caption preview to a display device that is connected to the customer premise equipment device, the caption preview comprising a display of caption content that is formatted according to the caption settings associated with the client device, thereby providing a display of the caption content as the caption content would be perceived by a user when the caption content is displayed at the client device, wherein the display device is a different device than the client device;

receiving confirmation of user-approval of the displayed caption preview; and

upon confirmation of the user-approval of the displayed caption preview, saving the association between the caption settings and the client device; and

in response to determining that caption settings associated with the client device are stored at the customer premise equipment device:

parsing the caption data from the content, wherein the caption data is parsed from a table associated with the content, and wherein the caption data comprises a caption service descriptor and one or more caption commands;

generating edited caption data by overwriting one or more of the caption commands according to the caption settings associated with the client device;

consolidating the edited caption data with the requested content; and

outputting the consolidated edited caption data and requested content to the client device.

10. The one or more non-transitory computer-readable media of claim 9 , wherein the caption settings associated with the client device are determined based upon one or more caption parameters input at the customer premise equipment device.

11. The one or more non-transitory computer-readable media of claim 9 , wherein the caption settings associated with the client device are retrieved from a data store comprising caption settings previously applied to caption data associated with the client device.

12. The one or more non-transitory computer-readable media of claim 9 , wherein the instructions are further operable to cause one or more processors to perform operations comprising:

storing the edited caption data as preferred caption data associated with the client device.