Patent ID: 7730517

Claim:
A method of transmission of digital information in a digital communication network, the network comprising a plurality of packet transport streams, each carrying at least one bouquet related table containing information related to a commercial bouquet, said method comprising: transmitting, in one of the plurality of packet transport streams, at least two different bouquet related tables each comprising information related to a respective different commercial bouquet, wherein the at least two bouquet related tables correspond to bouquet association tables containing information regarding the services present in the commercial bouquet, and transmitting in the one packet transport stream one additional table comprising a list of bouquet identity values associated with the bouquet related tables carried in the one transport stream, wherein the bouquet identity values are used to identify said at least two bouquet related tables from within the at least one packet transport stream so as to enable a given one of the at least two bouquet related tables to be downloaded from the at least one packet transport stream.