Patent ID: 7558570

Claim:
A terrestrial Digital Multimedia Broadcasting (DMB) receiver using an imaginary channel in a terrestrial DMB system, comprising: a key input unit for receiving an input from a user; a display unit for providing an image output to the user; an imaginary channel storage unit for storing information on imaginary channels designated to each broadcasting service by the user; a DMB receiving unit for receiving a terrestrial DMB broadcasting; a Multiplex Configuration Information (MCI) and Service Information (SI) analyzer for analyzing MCI and SI of Fast Information Channel (FIC) information from the DMB broadcasting signal; and a controller for searching the imaginary channel storage unit according to values of number keys input from the key input unit, extracting service IDs, controlling the DMB receiving unit to select broadcasting services according to the extracted service IDs, checking the information analyzed through the MCI/SI analyzer, and performing an update for the imaginary channel storage unit.