Patent ID: 8051451

Claim:
A method of processing broadcast data in a broadcast receiver, the method comprising: receiving a broadcast signal, the broadcast signal comprising mobile service data, a signaling information table including access information of the mobile service data, regularly spaced known data sequences, fast information channel (FIC) data, and transmission parameter channel (TPC) data, wherein the FIC data includes information for rapid mobile service acquisition, wherein the information for rapid mobile service acquisition includes transport stream identification information identifying the broadcast signal, and wherein the TPC data includes FIC version information for indicating an update of the FIC data and RS frame mode information for indicating a single frame mode or a dual frame mode; demodulating the received broadcast signal; obtaining the signaling information table from the demodulated broadcast signal; and obtaining an IP datagram of the mobile service data using the signaling information table, wherein the mobile service data and the signaling information table are packaged into at least one RS frame, wherein the at least one RS frame is mapped into a plurality of groups, wherein the FIC data comprises a plurality of FIC segments, each of the FIC segments comprising a 2-byte segment header including type information and a 35-byte segment payload including a portion of the FIC data.