Patent ID: 7130906
Filing Date: 2006-10-31
Classification: H04L

Abstract:
1. A data communicating device for transmitting time-continuous data in units of a predetermined data amount to another device connected to a network, the data communicating device comprising: buffer means for temporarily holding the time-continuous data; timer means for reading the time-continuous data from said buffer means at predetermined intervals; communicating means for transmitting the time-continuous data to the another device via the network; data holding means for holding status data received from the another device via said communicating means, the status data including status information of the another device; held-value determining means for determining whether the status data held in said data holding means includes a predetermined value; and control means for discarding a predetermined amount of the time-continuous data held in said buffer means at predefined intervals counted by said timer means when said held-value determining means determines that the status data held in said data holding means includes the predetermined value.