Patent ID: 8320278
Filing Date: 2012-11-27
Classification: H04L

Abstract:
1. A communication device being operable to form a communication route, the communication device comprising: a score information storage unit operable to store score information indicating a score as an evaluated value of a communication path connecting with an adjacent communication device, the score information includes data set by a user evaluation; a receiver unit operable to receive a route connection notice including current score information indicating a current score as an evaluated value of a partial communication route from a communication device being at a starting point on a communication route to a communication path that has been routed on the communication route; a routing unit being operable to acquire the score information stored in the score information storage unit, and select the communication path next to the communication path that has been routed as the partial communication route, based on the acquired score information of the communication path; a score updating unit operable to add a score of the communication path selected by the routing unit to the current score of the partial communication route indicated by the current score information received by the receiver unit, the score being acquired based on the score information stored in the score information storage unit, and update the current score information to the added score as a new current score; and a transmission unit operable to transmit the route connection notice including the current score information updated by the score updating unit to a next adjacent communication device, the updated current score information being used to form the communication route.