Patent ID: 8209593

Claim:
A method for confirming the integrity of a container, the method comprising the steps of: (1) upon receiving a container by a digital broadcasting receiving unit, acquiring, from the received container, profile information necessary to check the integrity of the container: (2) obtaining, from the acquired profile information, information related to at least one section into which the container is divided, wherein the information related to the at least one section indicates a prescribed length for each of the at least one section: and (3) checking, on a basis of the obtained information, an integrity related to data in the container according to a calculated length corresponding to the at least one section, wherein step (1) comprises: determining if there exists a profile identifier representing that profile information is added to the received container; and parsing a profile body between a head profile identifier representing the first part of the profile information and a tail profile identifier representing the last part of the profile information if it is determined that there exists the profile identifier.