HANDLING FEATURE AVAILABILITY IN A BROADCAST

摘要

The present invention relates to a method, for a receiver adapted for receiving broadcasted signal from a broadcaster, of handling the execution of a first independent feature, where at least a part of the feature data needed to execute said first independent feature is comprised in said broadcaster signal together with feature data needed to execute at least a second independent feature, and wherein said feature data are broadcasted as ata carousels, the method comprising the steps of: receiving instructions identifying said first feature, wherein the instructions further comprise an identification that the identified first feature is to be executed, loading, from the data carousel, the feature data related to said first feature, into memory of said receiver, executing said identified feature. By only activating specific features and loading feature data when the feature is to be executed, the broadcaster can add/remove/replace applications during broadcast, by removing carousels not being used and introducing new carousels. E.g. by placing all the applications in one xlet, all the functionalities provided by the xlet are active. So for example a network portal is always one key away.