Patent ID: 8776143

Claim:
A method of processing broadcast data in a broadcast receiver, the method comprising: receiving a broadcast signal comprising mobile service data, known data sequences, fast information channel (FIC) data, transmission parameter channel (TPC) data, and a signaling information table that includes access information of the mobile service data, wherein the mobile service data and the signaling information table are packaged into at least one of a plurality of Reed Solomon (RS) frames belonging to an ensemble, and wherein the FIC data comprises binding information between mobile services and the ensemble; demodulating the received broadcast signal; obtaining the FIC data for selection of the ensemble from the demodulated broadcast signal; building the at least one of the plurality of RS frames which belong to the ensemble using the demodulated broadcast signal; obtaining the signaling information table from the at least one of the plurality of RS frames; and processing the mobile service data based on the access information, wherein the ensemble includes a service map table providing service acquisition information for mobile services included in the ensemble, wherein the service map table includes an audio component descriptor describing an audio stream component of a mobile service, wherein the audio component descriptor includes: sampling rate information identifying an output sampling rate of the audio stream component; and audio channel number information identifying a number of audio channels, wherein the TPC data comprises FIC version information for indicating an update of the FIC data, wherein the FIC data is divided into a number of delivery units, wherein one of the number of delivery units is packed into an FIC segment for transmission, the FIC segment including an FIC segment header and an FIC segment payload, wherein the FIC segment header includes: segment number information indicating a numbering of the FIC segment among FIC segments of the FIC data; last segment number information indicating a numbering of a last FIC segment of the FIC data; and type information indicating a type of data carried in the FIC segment, wherein a size of the at least one of the plurality of RS frames is L (rows)×N (column size of a payload of the RS frame) bytes, each row having an M-byte header leaving the rest of the row available for data, wherein the data in the rows are packed into the rows end-to-end, with possible wrapping around at the end of each row to the next row, and wherein L, M, and N are integers.