Patent ID: 8136137
Filing Date: 2012-03-13
Classification: H04H

Abstract:
1. A program searching method in a digital multimedia terminal, the method comprising: receiving, at a receiving unit, broadcasting data broadcast to the digital multimedia terminal and at least a second digital multimedia terminal, the broadcasting data comprising broadcasting programs and service information; receiving, transmitting and processing, at the receiving unit, at least code division multiple access (CDMA) or global system for mobile communications (GSM) signals; parsing, at a controller, each Fast Information Group (FIG) of Fast Information Blocks (FIBs) within Fast Information Channel (FIC) data of each of the broadcasting programs; extracting, at an extracting unit, the service information from a Service Component ID in Service (SCIdS) field of each FIG and an identifier from a Reserved for advance (Rfa) field of each FIG, wherein the identifier identifies a program characteristic of a corresponding one of the broadcasting programs; storing, at a memory unit, the extracted service information and the extracted identifier; displaying, at a display device, a screen image configured to facilitate a search of one or more of the received broadcasting programs; receiving, at an input unit, an input or a selection of the program characteristic from a user via the display device; searching, at a searching unit, at least the stored service information or the stored identifier based on the received input or the received selection of the program characteristic in order to generate a list of broadcasting programs corresponding to the received input or the received selection of the program characteristic; providing the list to the display device for display at the display device; receiving, at the input unit, a selection of a broadcasting program from the displayed list of broadcasting programs; switching, at a switching unit, to a broadcasting channel corresponding to the selected broadcasting program; and displaying, at the display device, the selected broadcasting program, wherein, if no broadcasting programs corresponding to the received input or the received selection of the program characteristic are found by the searching unit, the method further comprises displaying, at the display device, a message indicating nonexistence of a matching broadcasting program.