Patent ID: 8848685

Claim:
A method of processing broadcast data in a broadcast transmitter, the method comprising: performing, by a Reed Solomon (RS) frame encoder, RS encoding and Cyclic Redundancy Check (CRC) encoding on mobile service data in order to generate an RS frame; mapping a portion of the RS frame into at least one of a plurality of regions of a data group, the data group including known data sequences, a fast information channel (FIC) segment and transmission parameter channel (TPC) data; and transmitting a transmission frame including data of the data group, wherein an FIC chunk including an FIC chunk header and an FIC chunk payload is segmented into a plurality of FIC segment payloads in order to generate a plurality of FIC segments, wherein the plurality of FIC segments are generated by adding an FIC segment header to each of the plurality of FIC segment payloads, wherein the FIC chunk header includes first FIC chunk major protocol version information that comprises two bits and indicates a major version level of a syntax of the FIC chunk and FIC chunk minor protocol version information that comprises three bits and indicates a minor version level of the syntax of the FIC chunk, wherein each FIC segment header includes second FIC chunk major protocol version information that comprises two bits having a same value as the first FIC chunk major protocol version information and indicates the major version level of the syntax of the FIC chunk, wherein each FIC segment header further includes an error indicator indicating whether at least one error is detected in the corresponding FIC segment, and wherein the TPC data comprise FIC version information for indicating a change of contents in the FIC chunk and TPC protocol version information for indicating a version level of a syntax of the TPC data.