Patent ID: 8208419

Claim:
A method for transmitting a broadcast signal, the method comprising: performing Reed Solomon (RS) encoding and Cyclic Redundancy Check (CRC) encoding on mobile service data and a signaling information table comprising access information of the mobile service data to build a plurality of RS frames, wherein the plurality of RS frames includes the mobile service data and the signaling information table; encoding signaling information that includes fast information channel (FIC) data and transmission parameter channel (TPC) data, wherein the FIC data includes information for rapid mobile service acquisition, and wherein the TPC data includes FIC version information for indicating an update of the FIC data; mapping at least one of the plurality of RS frames into a plurality of data groups, wherein each of the plurality of data groups comprises a portion of the at least one of the plurality of RS frames and the encoded signaling information; and transmitting multiple parades of the plurality of data groups within a transmission frame, wherein each of the parades includes a collection of consecutively numbered data groups having same forward error correction (FEC) parameters, wherein the TPC data includes a parade identifier to identify each of the parades, wherein the FIC data is divided into a plurality of FIC segments, each of the plurality of FIC segments including an FIC segment header and an FIC payload, and each of the plurality of FIC segments is transmitted in each of the plurality of data groups, wherein the signaling information table is carried according to at least one section, each of the at least one section comprising a section header and a section body, wherein the section header comprises an ensemble identifier to identify an ensemble, and the section body comprises access information of the mobile service data, wherein the ensemble identifier comprises the parade identifier, wherein at least one of the plurality of RS frames belongs to a primary ensemble or a secondary ensemble, and wherein the primary ensemble is carried over primary RS frames and the secondary ensemble is carried over secondary RS frames.