Patent ID: 8904461

Claim:
A broadcast signal receiving device comprising: a profile management module configured to manage user profile information that indicates whether execution of data broadcasting applications for a first channel to be displayed by the broadcast signal receiving device is permitted and whether execution of data broadcasting applications for a second channel to be displayed by the broadcast receiving device is permitted; an application filtering module configured to filter a data broadcasting application from a broadcast signal of a selected channel comprising the data broadcasting application, an audio signal of the selected channel, and a video signal of the selected channel, wherein selected channel is one of the first channel and the second channel; and an application management module determine whether the user profile information indicates for the selected channel that the execution of data broadcasting applications is permitted, control the broadcast signal receiving device to display the selected channel and execute the data broadcasting application in response to determining the user profile information indicates that execution of data broadcasting applications for the selected channel is permitted, and control the broadcast signal receiving device to display the selected channel and inhibit execution of the data broadcasting application in response to determining the user profile information indicates that execution of data broadcasting applications for the selected channel is not permitted.