Patent ID: 7860366

Claim:
An information processing apparatus for generating a priority table that serves as a mapping table between packets of an image data and a priority value representing a priority of individual packets, the information processing apparatus comprising: a setting information acquisition module for acquiring setting information for which priority values corresponding to some of the packets of the image data are designated; a packet information read-out module for reading out packet information containing information for putting the image data into the form of packets from the image data; and a priority table generation module for generating a priority table with priority values set for all packets of the image data based on the setting information acquired by the setting information acquisition module and the packet information read out by the packet information read-out module, wherein the priority table generation module comprises a priority table editing section configured to edit the priority values in the priority table based on packet information and the setting information, the priority table editing section configured to select a rule for setting the priority value based on the setting information, wherein the rule is selected from among a plurality of predefined rules and each rule of the plurality of rules is configured to control a manner in which the priority values in the priority table are set.