Patent ID: 9298577
Filing Date: 2016-03-29
CPC Classification: G06F,H04J,H04L

Claim Text:
1. A communication apparatus that is connected to a communication line, through which communication messages are transferred, to be capable of transmitting and receiving communication messages, the communication apparatus comprising: a detecting unit that detects a period in which a communication message flows through the communication line over a fixed detection period of time and that obtains a detection result thereof as usage status data of this detection period; a predicting unit that, based on the obtained usage status data of the detection period, predicts an idle time in which a communication message does not flow through the communication line; and a transmitting unit that transmits a communication message to the communication line in the predicted idle time, wherein the detection period includes a plurality of periodically consecutive determination periods, the detecting unit repeatedly detects a period in which a communication message flows to the communication line for each of the determination periods, and based on a detection result of one of the determination periods included in the usage status data, the predicting unit predicts an idle time of a following detection period corresponding to the one of the determination periods.