Patent ID: 8302146

Claim:
A method of transmitting status information of a host device in a cable broadcast receiver having a plurality of memories, the method comprising: collecting first status information identifying a type and size of system memory, the system memory type including a read only memory (ROM), a dynamic random access memory (DRAM), a static random access memory (SRAM), a flash memory, and a nonvolatile memory (NVM), second status information indicating a largest available continuous size of a first DRAM, which is fragmented or scattered, among the system memories for the host device, and third status information indicating at least one of a total size of a second DRAM for one or more applications to be received and a size of the second DRAM for the one or more applications to be received that are not allocated and available for use; and transmitting the collected status information according to a network management protocol, wherein the status information is defined as an object type of management information base (MIB) data structure, and wherein the second DRAM is excluded from the system memory.