Patent ID: 7950043

Claim:
A receiving apparatus which receives a broadcast, said apparatus comprising: a receiver that receives the broadcast; an outputter that outputs a service included in a received broadcast; an executer that executes an application program included in the received broadcast; an extractor that extracts, from service information included in the received broadcast, a font identifier that identifies font data corresponding to the service; a switch detector that detects that a currently outputted service is switched; a link switcher that adopts, as font data to be used by the application program, font data identified by a font identifier corresponding to the currently outputted service to which switching is detected by said switch detector; a recording medium on which the font identifier corresponding to the currently outputted service is recorded; and a renderer that renders the font data to be used by the application program, wherein said switch detector detects the switching by comparing the font identifier recorded in said recording medium and the font identifier extracted by said extractor, and stores the font identifier extracted by said extractor in said recording medium, when the font identifier recorded in said second information recording medium is different from the font identifier extracted by said extractor.