Patent ID: 7784074
Filing Date: 2010-08-24
Classification: H04H,H04N

Abstract:
1. A digital broadcasting receiver terminal comprising: a digital broadcasting receiving section for receiving digital broadcasting for one or more stations; a station information memory for storing station selection information for a corresponding station restored at the digital broadcasting receiving section; a station information keep/erase judgment section for determining whether to keep or erase the station selection information stored in the station information memory for a currently selected station, when the currently selected station becomes unavailable for receiving, based on criteria exclusive of signal reception, the criteria including a location of the respective station relative to a predetermined location; and a control section for selecting among the one or more stations based on station selection information stored in the station information memory; wherein the station information keep/erase judgment section decides to store the information together with an indication of a time when broadcasting turned out to be unavailable, as new information, if a memory area of the station information memory for storing the station selection information is not full; if the memory area is full, the keep/erase judgment section determines that old information bearing an earliest indication of the time when it turned out to be unavailable for receiving is not necessary anymore, erases the old information, and then stores the new information.