Patent ID: 7224690
Filing Date: 2007-05-29
Classification: G10H,H04L

Abstract:
1. A method for managing transmission and reception of data over a network, said network including at least a transmission-side apparatus having a plurality of transmission-side functional modules which individually produce and output a plurality of control data sets, and a reception-side apparatus having a plurality of reception-side functional modules which realize independent functions by use of input control data sets, respectively, wherein a control data set output from a transmission-side functional module and transmitted from the transmission-side apparatus is received by the reception-side apparatus and is input to a reception-side functional module corresponding to the transmission-side functional module, wherein correspondence between at least two transmission-side functional modules among the plurality of transmission-side functional modules and at least two reception-side functional modules among the plurality of reception-side functional modules is established, said method comprising the steps of: storing at the reception-side apparatus first identification data which represent one transmission-side functional module among the at least two transmission-side functional modules, and second identification data which represent one reception-side functional module among the at least two reception-side functional modules, the one reception-side functional module receiving a control data set output from the one transmission-side functional module; adding at the transmission-side apparatus third identification data to the control data set output from one transmission-side functional module among the at least two transmission-side functional modules, the third identification data representing the one transmission-side functional module; transmitting the control data set to which the third identification data is added from the transmission-side apparatus to the network; receiving at the reception-side apparatus the transmitted control data set to which the third identification data is added; and applying at the reception-side apparatus a relationship between the first identification data and the third identification data to the second identification data, to thereby specify the one reception-side functional module to which the control data set is to be input.