Patent ID: 7146634

Claim:
A digital signal receiver, comprising: a reception processor operable to receive a broadcast signal that includes repeating data, the repeating data being a particular period of data that is successively repeated within the broadcast signal, and to use a browser to cause the received repeating data to be displayed by a display unit; and a distributed information storage unit operable to obtain the received repeating data from said reception processor, to separate one of the successively repeated periods of data from the received repeating data, to store the one period of data in a data storage device, to read the one period of data from the data storage device in response to a received command, to restore the repeating data using the one period of data by successively repeating the one period of data plural times, to generate a menu frame of items associated with the one period of data, to convert the menu frame into menu data having a format that can be used by the browser, and to deliver at least one of the restored repeating data and the menu data to said reception processor; said reception processor being further operable to use the browser to cause the at least one of the restored repeating data and the menu data to be displayed by the display unit.