A digital television receiving system includes a tuner, a demodulator, a known data detector, an equalizer, a transmission detector, and a block decoder. The docking station has standalone patient monitoring functionality with respect to a first set of parameters. When the SP receives a managing instruction from a remote management computer to change the component information of at least one designated component of the components of the host computer, the SP updates the corresponding component information stored in the non-volatile memory based on the managing instruction.