Patent ID: 6453372
Filing Date: 2002-09-17
Classification: H04L

Abstract:
A data communication system including an internal computer connected to external computers through a network, said data communication system comprising:memory means for storing respective first information amounts that each of the external computers can receive in one communication cycle; storing means for storing a second information amount that has been transmitted to each of the external computers in a single communication cycle; addition means for adding, when data to be transmitted to a selected one of the external computers is placed in a transmission queue, an information amount of the data to be transmitted in the single communication cycle to the second information amount stored in the storing means and associated with the selected one of the external computers to produce a first sum; and transmission means for transmitting the data to be transmitted to the selected one of the external computers only if the first sum does not exceed the first information amount that the selected one of the external computers can receive in the single communication cycle.