Digital television translator with PSIP update

An information distribution network using digital television transmission, the information distribution network comprising:

• a plurality of digital television transmission nodes including
• a main digital television signal source for generating a main digital television signal;
• and
• a plurality of digital television translators receiving a digital television signal from one of the plurality of digital television nodes, at least one of said plurality of digital television translators including
• a digital television receiver for receiving the digital television signal from one of the plurality of digital television nodes and generating a digital transport stream from the received digital television signal, the digital transport stream including original ancillary data and original PSIP data having RX data,
• a data update module for updating the original PSIP data in the digital transport stream by replacing the RX channel data with TX channel data and for replacing the original ancillary data in the digital transport stream with new ancillary data, and
• a digital television modulator for converting the digital transport stream having the new ancillary data and the updated PSIP data into a transmitted digital television signal, wherein at least two of the plurality of digital television transmission nodes transmit at the same frequency and the total ancillary data of the information distribution network includes the new ancillary data from multiple digital television translators of the plurality of digital television translators,
• wherein the RX channel data is associated with the received digital television signal and includes at least one of a major channel number, a minor channel number, and a carrier frequency, and the TX channel data is associated with the transmitted digital television signal and includes at least one of an updated major channel number, an updated minor channel number, and an updated carrier frequency.

A method of translating a digital television signal, comprising the steps of:

• receiving a first digital television signal and generating a digital transport stream from the first digital television signal, the digital transport stream including original PSIP data having RX channel data;
• updating the original PSIP data in the digital transport stream by replacing the RX channel data with TX channel data;
• and
• converting the digital transport stream having the updated PSIP data into a second digital television signal,
• wherein the RX channel data is associated with the first digital television signal and includes at least one of a major channel number, a minor channel number, and a carrier frequency, and the TX channel data is associated with the second digital television signal and includes at least one of an updated major channel number, an updated minor channel number, and an updated carrier frequency.

An information distribution method using digital television transmission and increasing data capacity through frequency re-use, comprising the steps of:

• generating a plurality of digital television signals each from one of a plurality of digital television transmission nodes, further comprising the steps of
• generating a main digital television signal by one of the plurality of digital television transmission nodes;
• and
• generating a plurality of translated digital television signals by the plurality of digital television transmission nodes, the generation of at least one of the plurality of translated digital television signals further comprising the steps of
• receiving a digital television signal from at least one of the digital television transmission nodes and
• generating a digital transport stream from the received digital television signal, the digital transport stream including original ancillary data and original PSIP data having RX channel data,
• updating the original PSIP data in the digital transport stream by replacing the RX channel data with TX channel data,
• replacing the original ancillary data in the digital transport stream with new ancillary data, and
• converting the digital transport stream having the new ancillary data and the updated PSIP data into a transmitted digital television signal, wherein at least two of the plurality of translated digital television signals are transmitted at a same frequency and the total ancillary data of the information distribution network includes new ancillary data from multiple digital television translators of the plurality of digital television translators,
• wherein the RX channel data is associated with the received digital television signal and includes at least one of a major channel number, a minor channel number, and a carrier frequency, and the TX channel data is associated with a transmitted digital television signal and includes at least one of an updated major channel number, an updated minor channel number, and an updated carrier frequency.