Patent ID: 8670463

Claim:
A method of processing broadcast data in a broadcast transmitter, the method comprising: performing Reed-Solomon (RS) encoding and Cyclic Redundancy Check (CRC) encoding on mobile service data to build at least one RS frame including the mobile service data and dividing the at least one RS frame into a plurality of portions; dividing each of the plurality of portions into several Serial Concatenated Convolutional Code (SCCC) blocks according to SCCC block mode information, encoding data in the SCCC blocks at a code rate of 1/H, and mapping the SCCC blocks including the encoded data to data blocks according to the SCCC block mode information, wherein the SCCC block mode information identifies a relationship between the SCCC blocks and the data blocks, wherein each SCCC block is mapped to a respective data block when a value of the SCCC block mode information is set to ‘00’ and each SCCC block is mapped to 2 data blocks when the value of the SCCC block mode information is set to ‘01’, and wherein H is greater than 1; encoding signaling data including fast information channel (FIC) data and transmission parameter channel (TPC) data, wherein encoding signaling data comprises: RS encoding the FIC data, interleaving the RS-encoded FIC data, RS encoding the TPC data, multiplexing the interleaved FIC data and the RS-encoded TPC data, and Parallel Concatenated Convolutional Code (PCCC) encoding the multiplexed FIC and TPC data; and modulating a broadcast signal including data in the data blocks and the encoded signaling data, wherein the at least one RS frame belongs to an ensemble including a service map table (SMT), wherein the SMT comprises a header including an ensemble identifier to identify the ensemble and a payload including service acquisition information, wherein the FIC data comprise cross layer information for mobile service acquisition, and wherein the TPC data comprise FIC version information for identifying an update of the FIC data and the SCCC block mode information.