OPTIMIZED ACQUISITION METHOD

摘要

Provided are apparatuses and methods for transmitting and receiving option information corresponding to a program or service such as within electronic service guide (ESG) information. The option information may include user selectable options or predetermined options and may be described in a corresponding acquisition fragment and/or SDP. Acquisition fragments and corresponding SDPs for providing option data corresponding to a program or service may be added or overwritten. In on example, a service-related option is overwritten by a schedule event-related option and a corresponding schedule event fragment in the ESG information may contain a reference to any number of acquisition fragments.