Apparatus, systems and methods for providing enhancements to atsc networks using synchronous vestigial sideband (vsb) frame slicing

Abstract From the Canadian patent

Systems, methods, apparatus and computer program products are provided for signaling to a receiver an availability of a service and a deterministic mapping of a service content corresponding to the service. A modulator receives a digital signal and generates a data frame from the digital signal where the data frame is divided into segments where at least one grouping of , the segments contains the service content. The modulator modulates at least one grouping in accordance with the deterministic mapping. A receiving device receives a digital signal containing the availability of a service the , deterministic mapping corresponding to the service and the service content, and performs an …