Patent ID: 8059612
Filing Date: 2011-11-15
Classification: H04B,H04N

Abstract:
1. A method for receiving a digital broadcast in a broadcast receiving terminal, the method comprising: storing, by the terminal in a memory of the terminal, a system information obtained from a recently received broadcast, wherein the system information comprises at least one of Code Division Multiplexing (CDM) channel configuration information, Program Specific Information (PSI), and Service Information (SI); providing a stored Service Description Table (SDT) to select a channel to a user; performing an initial receiving operation using the stored system information; performing pilot channel synchronization to obtain an actual CDM channel configuration information, PSI and SI from a received broadcast that is actually being broadcast; demodulating a CDM channel corresponding to the user selected channel using the stored system information before the actual CDM channel configuration information, PSI and SI is obtained; when the actual CDM channel configuration information, PSI and SI is obtained, comparing the obtained actual CDM channel configuration information, PSI, and SI with the stored system information; and determining an operation of a receiver to be performed according to a result of the comparison.