Patent ID: 7565674
Filing Date: 2009-07-21
Classification: H04N,H04W

Abstract:
1. A wireless data-transferring apparatus for performing wireless communication with an information-processing terminal, comprising: a receiving unit configured to receive broadcast program data; an encoder configured to compression-encode the broadcast program data received by the receiving unit and to output the compression-encoded broadcast program data to a bus; and a communication module connected to a wide area network port and configured to perform as a router for connecting the information-processing terminal to an Internet via the wide area network port and for performing data-transfer between the Internet and the information-processing terminal, wherein the communication module includes (a) a network control device connected to the wide area network port and configured to transmit data from the information-processing terminal to the Internet and to receive Web content data from the Internet, (b) a wireless communications device configured to perform wireless communication with the information-processing terminal via a wireless network and to transmit the Web content data received by the network control device to the information-processing terminal via the wireless network, the Web content data being transferred from the network control device to the wireless communications device and not transferred on the bus, and (c) a control module configured to multiplex the Web content data and the compression-encoded broadcast program data to generate time-division multiplex data and to send the generated time-division multiplex data to the wireless communications device so as to simultaneously transmit the Web content data and the compression-encoded broadcast program data to the information-processing terminal in a time-divided fashion when the compression-encoded broadcast program data from the encoder is received via the bus.