Patent ID: 8856287

Claim:
A method of performing service personalization in a broadcast network, comprising: storing, in a terminal device, a broadcast identifier; receiving, in the terminal device, service signals broadcast through a first broadcast network from a server and respectively including service data and service information, said service information providing a description of content of the service data and including service identifiers; filtering the service signals in the terminal device by comparing the service identifiers, included in said received broadcast service signals, with the stored broadcast identifier to provide a service signal identified by the stored broadcast identifier; extracting, by the terminal device, (i) common data accessible to a plurality of terminal devices and (ii) a parameter type from the service signal identified from the filtered service signals, said parameter type indicating a parameter to be searched for in the terminal device; storing, in the terminal device, the extracted common data extracted from the identified service signal; reading a parameter stored in the terminal device relating to the parameter type extracted from the identified service signal; determining a final address by applying the parameter, read from the terminal device, to an algorithm, wherein said final address relates to a storage address of a first personalized file in the server; transmitting, to the server, via a second point-to-point network, a request identifying the final address; receiving, from the server, via the second point-to-point network, the first personalized file associated with the final address identified in the request, said first personalized file including first personalized data; storing, in the terminal device, the received first personalized file; transmitting, to the server, through the second network, a second request identifying a second final address extracted from the received first personalized file; and receiving, in the terminal device, from the server, a second personalized file associated with the second final address identified in the second request, said second personalized file including second personalized data.