IPTV receiver and method of acquiring a resource for an IPTV service

An Internet Protocol TV (IPTV) receiver comprising:

• a network interface transmitting and receiving an Internet protocol (IP) packet through a network;
• an IP network stack confirming a destination of the received IP packet and classifying the IP packet according to protocols;
• a system information (SI) decoder parsing an Internet protocol TV (IPTV) service record containing a resource locator element representing location of a resource included in the IP packet and reading a child element contained in the resource locator element, wherein the child element is any of an element including inline media information for retrieving an Inline encoded resource, an element including media uniform resource locator (URL) information for retrieving a File delivered by hypertext transfer protocol (HTTP) server and an element including FLUTE file information for retrieving a File delivered via FLUTE protocol;
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• an IPTV terminal function (ITF) operation controller controlling the retrieval of the resource according to information included in the child element.

A method of acquiring a resource for an Internet protocol TV (IPTV) service, the method comprising:

• connecting a service provider through a network;
• receiving a channel map record containing a resource locator element representing location of a channel details record;
• parsing the received channel map record and reading a child element contained in the resource locator element, wherein the child element is any of an element including inline media information for retrieving the channel details record encoded as Inline, an element including media uniform resource locator (URL) information for retrieving the channel details record delivered by hypertext transfer protocol (HTTP) server and an element including FLUTE file information for retrieving the channel details record delivered via FLUTE protocol;
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• receiving the channel details record according to information included in the child element.