Patent ID: 6466546
Filing Date: 2002-10-15
Classification: H04L

Abstract:
A communication apparatus for transferring, to a communication network, a frame formed by multiplexing real-time data for which real-time transmission is required and non-real-time data for which a certain delay is allowed, upon dynamically allocating a band by using a statistical multiplexing effect, comprising:detection means for detecting generation of the real-time data; disassembly means for disassembling the non-real-time data into at least one fixed-length data packet; frame generating means for generating the frame from the disassembled data packet or the real-time data; insertion means for, when generation of the real-time data is detected by said detection means while the frame is generated by using the disassembled data packet, interrupting the generation of the frame using the disassembled data packet, and inserting generation of the frame using the real-time data; and resuming means for, after the insertion is performed by said insertion means, resuming the generation of the frame using the disassembled data packet before the insertion.