Patent ID: 8339953

Claim:
An apparatus for monitoring a data transmitter, from which transmitted data is achievable in response to a request of a receiver, comprising: an examiner for examining a data traffic at an input of the receiver or at an output of the receiver, the examiner being configured to ascertain whether the data traffic falls below a minimum threshold; and a connection activator for initiating a new connection between the receiver and the data transmitter when the data traffic has fallen below the minimum threshold, wherein the receiver is a process running on a first computer, which is an integral element of a local network, wherein the examiner is configured to run on another second computer, which is also an integral element of the local network, monitor a plurality of further receivers associated with further data transmitters, and in an initiation of a new connection, access the first computer, on which a faulty receiver is running, via the local network; and an internet interface, on the one hand connected to the first computer and the second computer via the local network and on the other hand connectable to the internet.