Patent ID: 9247287
Filing Date: 2016-01-26
CPC Classification: H04N,H04W

Claim Text:
1. A communal television receiving system, comprising: a common wireless distributing apparatus performing a scanning operation for a wireless local area network (WLAN) communications module included in a WLAN communications network, determining transmission power with the WLAN communications module transmitting an acknowledgement (ACK) signal for the scanning operation, converting a received television signal into a WLAN signal having the determined transmission power, and transmitting the WLAN signal; and first to Nth wireless residential apparatuses transmitting the ACK signal as a response to the scanning operation of the common wireless distributing apparatus, receiving the WLAN signal from the common wireless distributing apparatus, and outputting the television signal; wherein when the wireless residential apparatus which does not transmit the ACK signal is present in the first to Nth wireless residential apparatuses, the common wireless distributing apparatus determines a most remote wireless residential apparatus among the wireless residential apparatuses transmitting the ACK signal as a relay terminal candidate and requests the corresponding wireless residential apparatus operate as the relay terminal.