Patent ID: 8276175

Claim:
A method for receiving Electronic Service Guide (ESG) data based on a session partitioning rule in a reception terminal, the method comprising: receiving and decoding an ESG bootstrap session; detecting a position of an ESG announcement carousel session from the ESG bootstrap session when an operating mode is an ESG multiple-stream mode as a decoding result; reading a partitioning declaration from an initial container of the ESG announcement carousel session in the detected position; analyzing a partitioning rule in the partitioning declaration, to acquire on which session ESG data is carried; detecting a type of rule applied to each session upon determining that the partitioning rule is applied; and acquiring ESG data from each session based on the detected type of rule, wherein the partitioning declaration includes a field indicating a start field value or an end field value, and the start field value or the end field value is used for determining whether the partitioning rule is applied or not wherein a minimum value of the start field value and a maximum value of the end field value can be assigned as specific bit strings.