Patent ID: 7181755

Claim:
A digital broadcasting system comprising: a digital broadcasting station, said station including: a program framing unit for framing digital broadcasting programs including local events; an information preparation unit for making program extended information having a first table describing detailed information of the local events included in said digital broadcasting programs, said table including a first unique identifier field corresponding to each local event and an event identification field including information identifying a digital broadcasting program; and a broadcast transmission unit for broadcasting a digital broadcasting signal, wherein the framed digital broadcasting programs and said program extended information are multiplexed in said digital broadcasting signal; and a digital broadcasting receiver, said digital broadcasting receiver including: a receiving unit for receiving the digital broadcasting signal; a recording unit for recording a digital broadcasting program included in said received digital broadcasting signal; a program identification unit for identifying the digital broadcasting program based on information included in the event identification information field and the first unique identifier field of the first table of the program extended information included in said received digital broadcasting signal; and a local event processing unit for processing a selected local event included in the digital broadcasting program identified by said program identification unit from among the digital broadcasting programs included in said digital broadcasting signal and the digital broadcasting programs recorded by said recording unit according to the detailed information described in said first table.