Patent ID: 7948943

Claim:
A method of processing broadcast data in a broadcast transmitter, the method comprising: performing, by a Reed-Solomon (RS) encoder, RS encoding and Cyclic Redundancy Check (CRC) encoding on mobile service data and a signaling information table comprising access information of the mobile service data, thereby building an RS frame including the mobile service data and the signaling information table; mapping a portion of the RS frame into at least one region of a group that has a plurality of regions, wherein the group further comprises known data sequences, fast information channel (FIC) data, and transmission parameter channel (TPC) data, wherein the FIC data includes status information for a mobile service, and wherein the TPC data includes FIC version information for identifying an update of the FIC data; and transmitting a broadcast signal including the group, wherein the status information for the mobile service is assigned with 2 bits, and wherein a first bit indicates whether the mobile service is active or inactive and a second bit indicates whether the mobile service is hidden or not hidden.