Patent ID: 8160009

Claim:
A method of transmitting a broadcast signal, the method comprising; encoding mobile data for FEC (Forward Error Correction) to build RS (Reed Solomon) frames, wherein each row of a payload of each of the RS frames includes transport packets of the mobile data including IP datagrams; encoding signaling data, wherein the signaling data includes TPC (transmission parameter channel) data and FIC (fast information channel) data, wherein the TPC data includes transmission parameters and the FIC data includes channel binding information between services and ensembles, wherein each ensemble includes a collection of the services providing same quality of services (QOS), and wherein each ensemble is transmitted through the RS frames; forming data groups including the encoded mobile data and encoded signaling data; formatting data packets including data in the data groups; multiplexing the mobile data in the data packets and main data in main data packets; and transmitting a transmission frame including the multiplexed data, wherein a parade of data groups is transmitted within the transmission frame and the TPC data includes first information for identifying the parade to which each data group belongs, wherein the IP datagrams include a Service Map Table (SMT) including information for all services carried in each ensemble and second information for identifying each ensemble.