Patent ID: 8533762

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 to build an RS frame belonging to an ensemble, wherein data of the RS frame are mapped into data groups and each of the data groups includes known data sequences and transmission parameter channel (TPC) data; segmenting fast information channel (FIC) data into FIC segment payloads, wherein one of the FIC segment payloads includes information indicating whether service protection is applied to the mobile service data; and transmitting a transmission frame including data of the data groups and main service data, wherein the transmission frame is made up of k1 sub-frames, wherein each of the k1 sub-frames includes k2 slots that are time periods for multiplexing the mobile service data and the main service data, wherein each of the data groups is transmitted during each of the k2 slots, wherein k1 and k2 are integers greater than 1, wherein each of the data groups further includes an FIC segment comprising an FIC segment header and one of the FIC segment payloads, wherein the TPC data includes information for indicating a total number of data groups to be transmitted during one of the k1 sub-frames of the transmission frame, and wherein the ensemble comprises a service map table (SMT) including access information of the mobile service data.