Patent ID: 7457585

Claim:
A home network server for receiving a broadcasting signal transmitted from a broadcasting station and for transmitting the received broadcasting signal to a wireless terminal by wireless, the home network server comprising: (a) a digital broadcasting signal receiver for receiving, as the broadcasting signal, a digital broadcasting signal obtained by modulating a first digital signal; (b) a digital broadcasting signal demodulator for demodulating the digital broadcasting signal to the first digital signal; (c) a digital signal modulator for modulating a digital signal supplied thereto to a digital wireless signal that the wireless terminal is able to receive by wireless; (d) a digital wireless transmitter for transmitting the digital wireless signal to the wireless by wireless; and (e) an analog signal generator for generating a first analog signal by carrying out analog conversion with respect to at least part of the demodulated first digital signal, wherein the first digital signal includes a plurality of broadcasting program signals that correspond to broadcasting programs of different channels, respectively, and in a case in which the analog signal generator carries out the analog conversion with respect to a broadcasting program signal that is included in the first digital signal and that corresponds to a broadcasting program of a channel, the digital signal modulator modulates a broadcasting program signal that is included in the first digital signal and that corresponds to a broadcasting program of another channel.