Patent ID: 9602403
Date: 2017-03-21
CPC Classifications: H04L

Claim:
1. A method for transmitting a packet in a broadcasting system, the method comprising: generating a packet including a payload, a header and a padding that is appended to the payload; adding padding information to the packet; transmitting the packet and the padding information, wherein the padding information includes a first padding size field indicating whether a size of the padding is larger than a predetermined size, wherein the padding information includes a second padding size field indicating a size difference between the size of the padding and the predetermined size if the first padding size field indicates that the size of the padding is larger than the predetermined size, wherein the size of padding includes a size of the first padding size field and a size of the second padding size field, and wherein the first padding size field is located at the end of the padding while the second padding size field is located inside the padding.