According to the present invention, a method for switching programs in a digital broadcasting is provided. In this method, on a transmission side, a physical channel number for transmitting a program having a program number therethrough is assigned to a part of the program number. On a receiving side,...http://www.google.ca/patents/US5864358?utm_source=gb-gplus-sharePatent US5864358 - Method for switching programs in digital broadcasting and digital broadcast receiving apparatus