Patent ID: 8359615

Claim:
A method for transmitting and receiving an Electronic Service Guide (ESG) by a digital broadcasting system, the method comprising: determining, by a digital broadcast transmitter, whether there are ESG fragments to be transmitted through a communication network among ESG fragments included in ESG data; generating, by the digital broadcast transmitter, an ESG data session in such a manner that the ESG data session include route information through the communication network of the ESG fragments when there are the ESG fragments to be transmitted through the communication network; transmitting the generated ESG data session from the digital broadcast transmitter to a broadcast receiving terminal; receiving the ESG data session to determine whether the route information through the communication network is included in the received ESG data session, by the broadcast receiving terminal; and obtaining the route information through the communication network when it is determined that the route information through the communication network is included in the received ESG data session, by the broadcast receiving terminal.