Patent ID: 9571799
Date: 2017-02-14
CPC Classifications: H04N

Claim:
1. A receiving apparatus comprising, a receiver that receives data transmitted from a plurality of transmitters in parallel; a monitor that determines, per a certain time period, whether a priority transmitter, whose transmission of data is delayed such that a difference between a reception speed corresponding to the priority transmitter and a predetermined reference speed assigned to the priority transmitter provides a negative reception speed value, is included among the transmitters based on receiving status of the data; and a controller that, in response to expiration of each of certain time periods, transmits control data to the transmitters when the priority transmitter is determined to be included, the control data instructing the transmitters other than the priority transmitter to suspend transmission of data for a predetermined time period while allowing the priority transmitter to transmit data during the predetermined time period, and withholds transmission of the control data to the transmitters when there is no transmitter whose difference between the reception speed and the reference speed provides a negative reception speed value, wherein the monitor identifies, as the priority transmitter, a transmitter whose difference between its reception speed and the reference speed provides a largest negative reception speed value among the transmitters.