Patent ID: 8683529

Claim:
A method of processing broadcast data in a broadcast receiver, the method comprising: receiving a broadcast signal, the broadcast signal comprising mobile service data, a signaling information table including access information of the mobile service data, a plurality of fast information channel (FIC) segments, and transmission parameter channel (TPC) data, wherein the plurality of FIC segments are comprised of FIC data, each FIC segment comprising a 2-byte segment header and a 35-byte segment payload including a portion of the FIC data, wherein the signaling information table further includes number information specifying a number of mobile services signaled by the signaling information table, service identification information identifying a mobile service and a component descriptor for a component of the mobile service in the signaling information table, the component descriptor including sampling rate information identifying a sampling rate of an audio stream component, wherein the signaling information table further includes component number information specifying a number of Internet Protocol (IP) stream components in the identified mobile service, component IP address flag information indicating whether component IP address information is present for an IP stream component, and the component IP address information specifying a source address of an IP datagram carrying the IP stream component; demodulating the received broadcast signal; and collecting the FIC segments included in the demodulated broadcast signal and recovering the FIC data, wherein the FIC data includes information for rapid mobile service acquisition, and wherein the TPC data includes FIC version information for indicating an update of the FIC data.