WO2007042224A1

WO2007042224A1 - Method and device for changing groups of datagrams routed by packets of a transport stream received by a radio frequency receiver device

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Publication number: WO2007042224A1
Application number: PCT/EP2006/009694
Authority: WO
Inventors: Rémi Pecqueur
Original assignee: Sagem Communication S.A.
Priority date: 2005-10-10
Filing date: 2006-10-06
Publication date: 2007-04-19
Also published as: FR2891973B1; FR2891973A1; EP1949685A1

Abstract

The invention concerns a method for changing groups of datagrams routed by packets of a transport stream received by a radio frequency receiver device, each of said groups of datagrams routing the useful data of at least one multimedia service and being identified by a unique identifier. The invention is characterized in that it includes following an external event, the following steps: obtaining the value of the time of occurrence of said external event/obtaining the identifier of one of said groups of datagrams at a time value immediately after said time of occurrence; enabling a radio frequency reception mode of said device; extracting packets from said transport stream comprising in their header said obtained identifier; disabling said reception mode; and extracting the useful data defining the or one of the services routed by said recovered packets so that said multimedia service is presented.

Description

Method and device for changing groups of datagrams routed by packets of a transport stream received by a radio frequency reception device

The present invention relates to a method and device for changing datagram groups carrying multimedia services via a DVB-H transport stream. DVB digital video broadcasting system (Digital Video

Broadcasting) is a transmission stream broadcasting system that complies with the recommendation | ITU-T (International Telecommunication Union) standard H.222.0 I ISO / IEC 13818-1 (International Standard Organization | International Electrotechnical Commission). DVB broadcast systems were originally defined to carry MPEG-2 coded audio and video elementary stream data (ISO / IEC 13818-2 and ISO / IEC 13818-3) but these data broadcasting systems are widely deployed for the dissemination of other types of data such as satellite software downloads, or the dissemination of Internet Protocol (IP) services, to name a few.

A DVB transport stream carries syntactic elements that are necessary and sufficient to access the payload of the services it routes. For this purpose, the syntax elements are encapsulated in MPEG-2 transport packets commonly called MPEG-2 Transport Stream (TS) packets whose syntax complies with the MPEG-2 ISO / IEC 13818-1 standard.

A TS packet has a header and a useful part. The header of a TS packet contains, among other things, an identifier which makes it possible to designate the syntax element which is conveyed in its useful part.

The syntactic elements of a DVB transport stream are of two types: either they correspond to data called useful data that define services, or they correspond to information called SI / PSI information (Service Informaition / Program Specifies Information) which describe the means (network, platform, ... etc.) to access these data.

SI information is defined by ETSI EN 300 468 (European Telecommunications Standards Institute) as tables. The information SI defines, among other things, an identifier called a network identifier (ID) which uniquely determines the network used to carry the payload of at least one service, by an identifier called a platform ID which uniquely determines the platform supporting the service. conveying the useful data of the one or more of these services and by the identifier called the program identifier (PID) of the TS packets which carry the useful data of this or these services. It may be noted that, in the case where the useful data of several services are accessible from the same information S1, the useful data of each of these services are distinguished by other information S 1 such as, for example in the case of IP service the IP address of one of these services, from which the useful data of this service is accessible. Program Specific Information (PSI) is also defined in table form by recommendation | H.222.0 standard | ISO / IEC 13818-1 identified in a DVB transport stream. This PSI information makes it possible, among other things, to access the elementary streams constituting a service, for example to each audio and video stream of an audiovisual program service chosen by a user, and to synchronize these elementary streams on the same time base during their decoding and their presentation to this user.

Each SI or PSI table is associated with an identifier called SI / PSI ID. In addition, thereafter, the indications to uniquely identify a service from the SI / PSI information are referred to as service designation indications.

Thus, a DVB stream receiving device in accordance with the ETSI EN 300 744 standard is capable of extracting from a DVB transport stream the TS packets comprising the same ID SI / PSI identifier so as to retrieve the indications of designation of a service. and to obtain from these designation indications, in particular from a PID identifier of TS packets, the useful data of a service from the TS packets including, in their header, the PID identifier thus retrieved.

For example, with reference to FIG. 1, a DVB transport stream F consists of TS packets of which only packets TS T _n to T _{n +} κ are represented. Packets T _n to T _{n +} κ having a PID identifier equal to the identifier PIDI carry useful data services IP SERVED and SERV2, T packets _n to T _{n +} κ having a PID identifier equal to the identifier PID2 route information SI / PSI describing the indications for designation of the SERVI and SERV2 services, the packets T _n to T _{n +} κ comprising a PID identifier equal to the identifier PIDi + 1 carry the useful data of a service SERV3 and the packets T _n to T _{n +} κ having a PID equal to the PID4 carry SI / PSI information describing the SERV3 service designation indications.

The DVB-H (Digital Video Broadcast for Handheld) mobile broadcast system is a DVB transport stream broadcasting system that complies with ETSI EN 302 304. It has been introduced to broadcast transport streams of the type DVB to a mobile device with limited battery resources in an environment with high transmission error rates. For this, two concepts have been introduced with respect to ETSI EN 300 468 and ETSI EN 301 192 which define a DVB transport stream: error correction and time slicing.

The concept of error correction has been introduced to overcome the transmission errors that occur during the transmission of a DVB transport stream through a disturbed radio frequency transmission. Predictive error correcting codes, for example the code commonly called Raptor, or non predictive FEC type (Forward Error Correction) such as a Reed-Solomon code, can be used to protect the payload of the services routed by a user. DVB-H transport stream. In general, the burst mode transmission consists of encapsulating the data (header and useful part) of the TS packets of the DVB transport stream F in datagrams, to be grouped together in a same group, hereinafter referred to as a group of datagrams (Burst en English), the datagrams corresponding to TS packets having the same PID identifier and to transmit this group of datagrams during a predefined and known time interval B of a mobile receiver device. This mode of transmission is particularly advantageous because, the radio frequency reception mode of this device remains active only during these time intervals, the energy resources of the device are saved without changing the quality of the service (s) presented.

A group of datagrams is routed by a DVB-H transport stream in TS packets once it has been formatted according to at least one MPE (MultiProtocol Encapsulation) section defined by the ETSI EN 301 192. As the size of the datagram an MPE section is limited to a maximum value of octets and a group of datagrams is most often made up of a number of octets greater than this maximum value, several MPE sections are generally necessary to format a group of octets. datagrams.

For example, with reference to FIG. 1, the group of datagrams P (i, j) (group of datagrams relating to the same identifier PIDi and conveying the useful data of the SERVI and SER services V2 at a time t,) is formatted according to the two sections MPE M1 and M2 and the group of datagrams P (i + 1, j) (group of datagrams relating to the same identifier PID (i + 1) and conveying the useful data of the service SERV3 to a time t _j + B,) is formatted according to a single section MPE M3. It may be noted that, for simplification of notation, a group of datagrams P (i + m, j) refers to a group of datagrams relating to the same identifier PID (i + m) and conveying the m useful data of at least a service at a time equal to t _} + ΣB _u . We can note

also that each group of datagrams P (i, j), P (i + 1 j), ... also has a section MPE MC _n which corresponds to the data of a predictive correction code determined in order to protect the data of each group of datagrams P (ij), P (i + 1, j), ...

Once formatted, each datagram group P (i, j), P (i + lj), ... is routed by at least one packet T _n , constituting a transport stream FH, in order to continuously transmit each group of datagrams. P (i, j), P (i + 1), ... as explained previously. The successive diffusion at a time t, and a time t _{J +} i of two groups of datagrams P (i, j) and P (i, j + 1) conveying the useful data of at least one service is separated by an interval of time called Δt _M which may have a variable value during the broadcast of the same transport stream FH. The parameter Δt, _j is transmitted at the same time as the data of the group of datagrams P (i, j). In addition, the value of this parameter indicates to a receiving device at time t _{D +} i = t _j + .DELTA.t, _j on the last group P (i, j) received at time t ,, it can expect to receive the next group of datagrams P (i, j + 1).

The speed of transmission of service data is thus generally increased because all the bandwidth of the network (or at least a large part of this band) is dedicated to the transmission of a group of datagrams P (ij) during the interval. of time B ₁ . This mode of transmission is particularly interesting for mobile devices which can thus be inactive during the time intervals Δt, _j and thus save their energy resources. Like any DVB transport stream, a DVB-H stream also carries SI / PSI information in accordance with ETSI EN 300 468, which provides service designation indications. It may be noted that this SI / PSI information is transmitted without prior time grouping.

The service designation indications are stored by a receiving device in a Network Information Table (NIT) and an IP / Mac Notification Table (INT) according to ETSI EN 301 192. and routed through a DVB-H transport stream.

Fig. 2 is a diagram of an example of changing groups of datagrams according to the state of the art. Suppose that the SERVI service has been requested for example following a user action on a key on the keypad of a receiving device. The receiving device then retrieves the indications for designation of the SERVI service, in particular the identifier PID1 of the packets T _m which carry the useful data of the SERVI service, from the tables of information on the networks INT and notification INT. It then retrieves the packets T _m of the transport stream FH which carry the groups of datagrams P (i, j), P (ij + 1), ... among the set of packets T _m constituting this transport stream, c i.e. only TS packets being broadcast which contain the PIDi. Once these packets T _{n have been} recovered, the useful data of the group of datagrams P (i, j) are extracted (group of datagrams represented in bold lines in Fig. 2), possibly corrected from the data conveyed by the MCI section so that the SERVI service is presented to the user who has requested it. The radiofrequency reception mode of the receiver device then becomes inactive during the time Δt _lj5, that is to say until the reception of the next group of datagrams P (i, j + 1) as previously explained in relation with FIG. 1.

At time tl, called time of occurrence of an external event, a change of service order is issued by the user. In the case where the data of the new requested service, for example SERV3, are not accessible from the group of datagrams P (i, j) being received, it is necessary to receive another group of datagrams, in this case. the datagram group P (i + 1, j + 1) at time t _{j +} i + B, which contains the payload data of the new SERV3 service requested. For this purpose, the receiving device retrieves the identifier PID (i + 1) corresponding to the new service requested from the information tables on the NIT networks and notification INT, and the radiofrequency reception mode of the device then becomes active so as to recovering the packets T _m of the transport stream FH comprising in their header the identifier PID (i + 1). The change of group is not instantaneous and, most often, the waiting time Al to obtain the payload of the requested service is long because the device must firstly recover all the packets T _m constituting the group of datagrams P (i + lj + 1) and secondly to correct the possible transmission errors which affected the data of these packets T _m .

It can be noted that the value of the waiting time Al can be important in the case where non-predictive code of the FEC type is used because it is necessary to wait for the reception of all the MPE sections of a group datagrams before being able to present the requested service. The value of this waiting time can be somewhat reduced by using a predictive error correction code that allows the requested service to be presented before the entire datagram group is received. However, in practice, this value remains too important causing a change of groups too long. For example, in the case of using a non-predictive error correction code, as each group of datagrams has a duration B, of the order of 100 ms and a transport stream FH can carry about forty quarts of groups of datagrams relating to different identifiers PID, the value of the waiting time Al is at most equal to 4 seconds. One of the aims of the present invention is to provide a method for changing groups of datagrams which makes it possible to reduce the value of the waiting time A1. For this purpose, a method of changing groups of datagrams routed by packets of a transport stream received by a radiofrequency receiving device, each of said datagram groups conveying the useful data of at least one multimedia service and being identified by a unique identifier, said method being characterized in that it comprises to an outside event:

- a. step of obtaining the value of the time of appearance of said external event / - a step of obtaining the identifier of one of said groups of datagrams at a time value just after the value of said time of appearance,

a step of activating a radio frequency reception mode of said device,

a step of recovering the packets of said transport stream comprising in their header said identifier thus obtained, a step of deactivating said reception mode, and

a step of extracting the useful data defining the service or services carried by said recovered packets so that said multimedia service is presented.

According to an embodiment of the present invention, the step of obtaining the identifier of one of said groups of datagrams at a time value just after the value of said time of appearance is followed by the step of activation of a radio frequency reception mode of said device.

According to one embodiment of the present invention, the step of obtaining the identifier of one of said datagram groups at a time value just after the value of said time of appearance is preceded by the step d activation of a radio frequency reception mode of said device.

According to an embodiment of the present invention, during the step of obtaining the identifier of one of said groups of datagrams at a time value just after the value of said time of appearance, the identifier one of said datagram groups is obtained from a packet of said transport stream being broadcast.

According to an embodiment of the present invention, said transport stream conveying service designation indications, a storage memory of said designation indications being initialized empty, a counter being initialized at a predefined value and periodically decremented, the step of obtaining the identifier of one of said datagram groups at a time value just after the value of said time of appearance is followed by:

a step of testing the nullity of the value of said counter, in the case where this value is zero, a step of re-initializing said memory by deleting the designation indications that it stores and resetting said counter to said predefined value,

a step of testing the storage of the designation indications of the or all of the services carried by said transport stream in said memory, in the case where the indications of all or said services are stored in memory; in said memory, a step of re-initializing said memory by deleting the designation indications that it stores and resetting said counter to said predefined value,

a step of testing the storage in said memory of the designation indications of the or each of the services whose useful data are conveyed by the group of datagrams comprising said identifier thus obtained,

- in the case where the said indications of designation of one or of the said services are not stored in the said memory, a step of memorizing the indications of designation of one or of the said services, - in the case where said indications of designation of the or each of said services are stored in said memory, return to the step of obtaining the identifier of one of said groups of datagrams at a time value just after the value of said time of appearance.

The present invention also relates to a radio-frequency transport stream receiving device consisting of packets carrying groups of datagrams, each of said datagram groups conveying the useful data of at least one multimedia service and being identified by a unique identifier, characterized in that that it comprises:

means for enabling a user to produce an external event; means for obtaining the value of an appearance time of an external event;

means for obtaining the identifier of one of said datagram groups at a time value just after the value of said time of appearance,

means for activating a radio frequency reception mode of said device, means for recovering packets from said transport stream comprising in their header said identifier thus obtained,

means for deactivating said reception mode,

means for demodulating a radio frequency signal carrying said transport stream,

means for extracting useful data defining the service or services conveyed by packets of said transport stream so that said one or one of said services is. presented to the user.

means for displaying a digital representation of one of said services.

According to one embodiment of the present invention, the radiofrequency reception device comprises means for demodulating a transport stream in accordance with the ETSI EN 300 744 standard.

The present invention finally relates to a computer program for changing groups of datagrams routed by packets of a transport stream, said computer program implementing the steps of the method of changing groups of datagrams in accordance with one embodiments above.

The present invention also relates to a DVB-H stream receiving device embodying the invention.

The characteristics of the invention mentioned above, as well as others, will emerge more clearly on reading the following description of an exemplary embodiment, said description being given in relation to the attached drawings, among which: Fig. 1 is a diagram of an example constitution and temporal evolution of a DVB-H transport stream transmitted in burst mode.

Fig. 2 is a diagram of an example of changing groups of datagrams according to the state of the art.

Figs. 3 and 4 show a diagram of an example of changing datagram groups according to the present invention.

Fig. Figures 5 and 6 show diagrams of the steps of the method of changing groups of datagrams according to the present invention.

Fig. 7 is a block diagram of a DVB-H stream receiving device D embodying the present invention. According to one embodiment of the present invention, the method of changing groups is described in connection with FIG. 5 and illustrated in FIG. 3.

Suppose that a SERVI service routed by a group of datagrams P (i, j) is being presented (group of datagrams shown in bold line in Fig. 3) and an external event requiring access to a new datagram service whose useful data is not accessible from this group of datagrams occurs at the time of appearance tl. According to one embodiment of the present invention, this external event is an action on a specific key of the keyboard of a receiving device. Following this external event, the process of changing groups of datagrams begins with a step 100 of obtaining the value of the time of appearance tl.

Step 100 is followed by a step 200 of obtaining the identifier PID (i + kl) of a group of datagrams P (i + kl, j) located temporally just after the group of k-\ datagrams P (i, j), that is to say, the value of a obtaining time t, + Σ B _U

posterior to the value of the appearance time tl such that the difference between the value t _j

Ar-I

+ ^ B ₁₁ and the value tl is minimal.

Step 200 is then followed by a step 300 of activation of the radiofrequency reception mode of the device. Step 300 is followed by a step 400 for recovering the packets TS of the transport stream FH comprising in their header the identifier PID (i + kl) thus obtained. Step 400 is then followed by a step 500 during which the radio frequency reception mode of the device is deactivated. Step 500 is finally followed by a step 600 during which the useful data defining the one or one of the services and carried by the packets T _m thus recovered are extracted and possibly corrected so that the one or one of these services is presented to the user.

The method of changing groups according to the present invention makes it possible to change the group into a waiting time A2 whose value is reduced compared with the value of the waiting time A1 obtained by the method of changing groups of datagrams of the state of the art illustrated in connection with FIG. 2. The value of the waiting time A2 is reduced because the group of datagrams P (i + kl, j) considered is situated temporally just after the group P (i, j) which carries the useful data of the service in progress. of presentation avoiding to wait, like this has been described in connection with FIG. 2, that the packets T _m of the datagram group P (i + 1, j + 1) are recovered from the transport stream FH.

According to one embodiment of the present invention, the step 200 of obtaining the identifier PID (i + kl) of a group of datagrams P (i + kl, j) is preceded by the step 300 of activation of the radiofrequency reception mode of the device and the identifier PID (i + kl, j) of a group of datagrams P (i + kl, j) is obtained from the header of the packet T _m of the transport stream FH which is currently being broadcast and therefore of reception, or of the following packet T _{m +} i in the case where the header of this packet T _m includes in its _' header the identifier PID (i) of one of the groups of datagrams P (i, j), POJ + l), ⁷ ...

The method of changing groups of datagrams described in connection with FIG. 5 allows to quickly change a service whose payload is routed by a group of datagrams to another service whose payload is routed by another group of datagrams. However, in the case where a user multiplies in a time interval TC requests for service changes whose useful data are conveyed by groups of datagrams relating to different PID identifiers, the same service can be presented to him several times while others may never be presented to him.

To remedy this problem, according to one embodiment of the present invention described with reference to FIG. 6, step 200 comprises substeps 201 to 208.

During step 201, an MP memory is initialized (empty memory). As will be seen later, the memory MP stores the service designation indications previously presented during the time interval TC. During this step 201, a CO counter is also initialized to the predefined time value TC, for example 1 minute. This counter is decremented second by second to reach a zero value.

Step 201 is followed by step 202 of obtaining the identifier PID (i + kl) of a group of datagrams P (i + kl, j) situated temporally just after the group of datagrams P (ij) .

Step 202 is followed by a step 203 in which it is tested if the CO counter has a value of zero. If so, step 203 is followed by a step 204 of re-initialization of the memory MP (empty memory) and the counter CO to the threshold value TC. Step 204 is followed by step 205. If not, step 203 is followed by step 205 in which it is tested if the memory MP comprises the designation indications of / all the service (s) routed by the transport flow FH .

In the case where the test performed in step 205 is checked, step 205 is followed by a step 206 of re-initialization of the memory MP (empty memory) and the counter CO to the value TC. Step 206 is followed by step 207.

In the case where the test carried out during step 205 is not verified, step 205 is followed by step 207 during which it is checked whether the designation indications of the or each of the services whose the useful data are conveyed by the group of datagrams P (i + kl, j) are stored in the memory MP. In the case where the test carried out during step 207 is verified, step 207 is followed by step 202 previously described in order to obtain another PID identifier. In the case where the test carried out in step 207 is not checked, that is to say if at least one service has not been presented beforehand during the time interval TC, the step 207 is followed by a step 208 during which the indications for designation of one or one of the services whose useful data are conveyed by the group of datagrams P (i + kl, j) are stored in the memory MP. In the case where the useful data of several services are conveyed by the group of datagrams P (i + k-lj) and they have not been presented beforehand, the service selected is the first service identified as not having been presented again.

Fig. 4 illustrates the method of changing datagram groups according to the embodiment described in connection with FIG. 6. At time tl, an external event occurs. Assume that the counter CO does not have a zero value (step 203) and that the memory MP does not store the designation indications of the or all services routed by the transport stream FH (step 205). Suppose that these indications for designation of the or each of the services carried by the groups of datagrams P (i + kl, j), P (i + kl, j + 1), ... are not stored in the memory MP. This identifier P (i + kl) is therefore the identifier of the new groups of datagrams from which the service or services carried by this group of datagrams is designated to be presented at time t _j .

At time t2, a new external event occurs before the CO counter has reached a zero value (step 203). Let us again admit that the memory MP does not memorize the designation indications of / of all the service (s) conveyed by the transport flow FH. Let's also admit that the service (s) routed by groups of datagrams P (i + kl, j), P (i + kl, j + 1), ... have already been presented to the user (their designation indications are stored in the memory MP) ( test carried out during the step 207 verified), a new identifier PID (i + k) of new groups of datagrams is then obtained during the step 202 in order to be able to designate a service whose useful data are conveyed by these groups of datagrams that have not yet been presented during the TC time interval.

Assume that this identifier is not stored in the MP memory (step 207). It is therefore the identifier of the new group of datagrams from which (in service is designated to be presented to the user, the designation indications of this service are then stored in the MP memory (step 208).

Fig. 7 represents a diagram of a transport stream receiving device D adapted to implement, for example by means of software that it incorporates, the steps of the group switching method according to one of the embodiments of FIG. The present invention describes in connection with FIG. 5 and FIG. 6.

The device D is for example, without limitation, a desktop computer, a workstation or a mobile communication device such as a mobile phone, a personal assistant or a laptop. It essentially comprises a communication bus B to which are connected a processor PROC, a non-volatile memory ROM, a random access memory RAM, a man / machine interface GUI, a decoding / decoding unit DEC and a DEM demodulator of a transport stream stream. .

The GUI comprises means for enabling a user to produce an external event, means for obtaining the time at which an external event occurs, and means for viewing a digital representation of a service. For example, and without limitation, the means for producing an external event consist of an alphanumeric keyboard and / or a mouse of a computer. The means for viewing a service are, for example and in a non-limiting manner, consist of a screen. The nonvolatile memory ROM stores the programs and the data allowing inter alia the implementation of the steps of the program change method as described in FIG. 5 and in FIG. 6.

The transport stream DEM demodulator comprises means for receiving a radio frequency signal carrying a transport stream, means for activating and disable the demodulator DEM, means for demodulating this radio frequency signal which are, according to an embodiment of the present invention, in accordance with the ETSI standard EN 300 744, and means for recovering the identifier PID stored in the header of a TS packet. The decoding / decoding unit DEC comprises means for extracting the useful data of a service conveyed by a group of datagrams from the DEM demodulator and means for correcting errors affecting the useful data of a service thus extracted.

When the transport stream receiving device D is powered up, the software programs are transferred from the ROM memory to the RAM RAM which then contains the executable code and the data necessary for the implementation of the one embodiments of the present invention.

According to another embodiment, the device D comprises means for obtaining the identifier of a group of datagrams from a TS packet being broadcast.

According to one embodiment of the present invention, the device D is adapted to receive DVB-H transport streams.

According to an embodiment of the present invention, the device D comprises means for initializing an MP memory zone (empty memory) of the RAM memory and a CO counter at a predefined time value TC. In addition, the device D comprises means for testing whether the memory MP comprises the designation indications of the or each of the services carried by a transport stream DVB-H, means for periodically decrementing the value of the counter CO, means for test the value of the counter CO, means for testing whether the designation indications of a service concerned are stored in the memory area MP, and means for storing the value of a PID identifier in the memory area MP.

Claims

1) A method of changing groups of datagrams routed by packets of a transport stream received by a radio frequency receiving device, each of said groups of datagrams carrying useful data of at least one multimedia service and being identified by a unique identifier , characterized in that it comprises following an external event: a. a step (100) of obtaining the value of the time of occurrence of said external event, b. a step (200) of obtaining the identifier (PID) of one of said datagram groups at a time value just after the value of said time of appearance, c. a step (300) for activating a radio frequency reception mode of said device, d. a step (400) for recovering the packets of said transport stream comprising in their header said identifier (PID) thus obtained, e. a step (500) of deactivating said receiving mode, and f. a step (600) for extracting the useful data defining the service or services carried by said recovered packets so that said multimedia service is presented.

2) A method of changing groups of datagrams according to claim 1, characterized in that step b) is followed by step c).

3) Method of changing groups of datagrams according to claim 1, characterized in that step b) is preceded by step c).

4) A method of changing groups of datagrams according to claim 3 characterized in that during step b), the identifier of one of said groups of datagrams is obtained from a packet of said transport stream currently being broadcast.

A method of changing datagram groups according to claim 4, said transport stream carrying service designation indications, a memory (MP) for storing said designation indications being initialized empty, a counter (CO) being initialized to a predetermined value and decremented periodically, characterized in that step b) is followed by:

a step (203) of testing the nullity of the value of said counter, in the case where this value is zero, a step (204) of re-initialization of said memory (MP) by deleting the designation indications that it memorizes and re-initializes said counter to said predefined value,

- a çtape (205) test for storing the designation information or of all service (s) delivered (s) by said transport stream in said memory ^(MP),!

in the case where the indications of one or all of said services are stored in said memory, a step (206) of re-initialization of said memory (MP) by deleting the designation indications that it stores and re-initializing said counter to said predefined value, - a step (207) for testing the storage in said memory (MP) of designation indications of the or each of the services whose useful data are conveyed by the group of datagrams comprising said identifier thus obtained,

- in the case where said indications for designation of one or one of said services are not stored in said memory (MP), a step (208) for storing the designation indications of the one or one of said services,

- In the case where said indications for designation of each or each of said services are stored in said memory (MP), return to step b).

6) Radio frequency transport receiving device consisting of packets carrying groups of datagrams, each of said group of datagrams carrying useful data of at least one multimedia service and being identified by a unique identifier, characterized in that it comprises :

means for enabling a user to produce an external event,

means for obtaining the value of an appearance time of an external event,

means for obtaining the identifier (PID) of one of said datagram groups at a time value just after the value of said time of appearance,

means for activating a radio frequency reception mode of said device, means for recovering packets of said transport stream comprising in their header said identifier (PID) thus obtained,

means for deactivating said reception mode, and

means for demodulating a radiofrequency signal from said transport stream; means for extracting useful data defining the service or services routed by packets of said transport stream so that said one or one of said services is presented to the user; .

means for viewing a digital representation of one of said services. /

7) radiofrequency receiving device according to claim 6, characterized in that it comprises means for demodulating a transport stream according to ETSI EN 302 304.

8) Computer program for changing groups of datagrams routed by packets of a transport stream characterized in that it implements the steps of the method of changing groups of datagrams according to one of claims 1 to 5.