Patent ID: 8121151
Filing Date: 2012-02-21
Classification: H04L

Abstract:
1. A reception apparatus for receiving first packets, the reception apparatus comprising: a communication section to receive the first packets through a network responsive to an application layer request; and a processing unit configured to determine whether a number of the first packets received through the network exceeds a first threshold value which is a number of the first packets used when a second packet having a size of data greater than a size of data placed in each of the first packets is produced from the first packets, said processing unit further configured to determine, in response to said processing unit determining that the first threshold value is not exceeded by the number of the first packets received through the network, whether a predetermined period of time has elapsed after a last one of the first packets received through the network was received, said processing unit further configured to determine, in response to said processing unit determining that the predetermined period of time has elapsed after the last one of the first packets received through the network was received, whether a number of times, by which the predetermined period of time has successively elapsed after the last one of the first packets received through the network was received, exceeds a second threshold value, said processing unit further configured to set, in response to said processing unit determining that the second threshold value is exceeded by the number of times that the predetermined period of time has successively elapsed after the last one of the first packets received through the network was received, the first threshold value to decrement the number of the first packets to be used to produce the second packet.