Patent ID: 7702842
Filing Date: 2010-04-20
Classification: H04L

Abstract:
1. A relay device for connecting a plurality of buses, wherein information communication standards which a plurality of the buses are to be in conformity to are different from each other, and a plurality of the buses need a converting process previously set at the time of transmitting information from one of the buses to another bus, the relay device comprising: a first storing device which stores first identification information indicative of the relay device itself; an allocating device which allocates different processor identification information to each of information processors connected to the buses; a second storing device which stores second identification information including the allocated processor identification information and indicating the information processor, for each of the buses connected; a generating device, at the time of controlling operation of a target information processor as the information processor connected to the another bus, which generates a control message including the first identification information indicative of the relay device connected to the another bus to which the target information processor is connected, operation information indicative of the operation, and the processor identification information indicative of the target information processor; and a transmitting device which transmits the generated control message to the relay device connected to the another bus to which the target information processor is connected.