Patent ID: 9584238
Date: 2017-02-28
CPC Classifications: H04H,H04L,H04N

Claim:
1. A method comprising: receiving at a device a digital broadcast signal from a broadcast system, the digital broadcast signal including a physical layer time slice identified by a physical layer pipe identifier, and the digital broadcast signal including layer one signaling information; identifying, based on a type field of the layer one signaling information, that the physical layer time slice contains a service guide bootstrap session; determining, based on the layer one signaling information, a location of the physical layer time slice within a physical layer frame; extracting, from the physical layer time slice, the service guide bootstrap session, which identifies one or more service guide sessions available for reception from one or more other physical layer time slices; receiving the one or more service guide sessions from the one or more other physical layer time slices of the broadcast system based on information in the service guide bootstrap session; and storing service guide information, received in the one or more service guide sessions, in a memory of the device.