Program searching in digital multimedia terminal

A program searching method in a digital multimedia terminal, the method comprising:

• receiving, at a receiving unit, broadcasting data broadcast to the digital multimedia terminal and at least a second digital multimedia terminal, the broadcasting data comprising broadcasting programs and service information;
• receiving, transmitting and processing, at the receiving unit, at least code division multiple access (CDMA) or global system for mobile communications (GSM) signals;
• parsing, at a controller, each Fast Information Group (FIG) of Fast Information Blocks (FIBs) within Fast Information Channel (FIC) data of each of the broadcasting programs;
• extracting, at an extracting unit, the service information from a Service Component ID in Service (SCIdS) field of each FIG and an identifier from a Reserved for advance (Rfa) field of each FIG, wherein the identifier identifies a program characteristic of a corresponding one of the broadcasting programs;
• storing, at a memory unit, the extracted service information and the extracted identifier;
• displaying, at a display device, a screen image configured to facilitate a search of one or more of the received broadcasting programs;
• receiving, at an input unit, an input or a selection of the program characteristic from a user via the display device;
• searching, at a searching unit, at least the stored service information or the stored identifier based on the received input or the received selection of the program characteristic in order to generate a list of broadcasting programs corresponding to the received input or the received selection of the program characteristic;
• providing the list to the display device for display at the display device;
• receiving, at the input unit, a selection of a broadcasting program from the displayed list of broadcasting programs;
• switching, at a switching unit, to a broadcasting channel corresponding to the selected broadcasting program;
• and
• displaying, at the display device, the selected broadcasting program,
• wherein, if no broadcasting programs corresponding to the received input or the received selection of the program characteristic are found by the searching unit, the method further comprises displaying, at the display device, a message indicating nonexistence of a matching broadcasting program.