Patent ID: 8473985

Claim:
A method for managing digital broadcasting service information in a mobile terminal, the method comprising: receiving first program guide data from a first transmission system, the first program guide data being associated with received broadcast content; receiving second program guide data from a second transmission system, the second program guide data being associated with the received broadcast content, and wherein the first transmission system comprises a transmission mode which is different from a transmission mode of the second transmission system, and wherein the first program guide data is structured differently than a structure of the second program guide data; storing the first program guide data and the second program guide data in memory associated with the mobile terminal, wherein the storing of the first program guide data and the second program guide data occurs prior to receiving a user request for viewing a broadcast program; receiving, at the mobile terminal, the user request for viewing the broadcast program; generating, at the mobile terminal and in response to the receiving of the user request, a combined program guide comprising data from both the first program guide data and the second program guide data, wherein content of the combined program guide is determined at the mobile terminal according to a mapping indicated by meta-structured data stored in the memory, and wherein the generating of the combined program guide occurs after receiving of the user request; displaying the combined program guide on a display associated with the mobile terminal responsive to the user request received at the mobile terminal; and displaying the received broadcast content which is associated with the user requested broadcast program, wherein the displaying of the received broadcast content and the displaying of the combined program guide result from a single user request, which is the received user request for viewing the broadcast program.