Patent ID: 8073485

Claim:
A wireless communication device comprising: a wireless communication section that wirelessly communicates with another wireless communication device; a first data processing section that obtains data received in the wireless communication section from the another wireless communication device, separates the data into pieces of the data for respective logical channels, and distributes the pieces of data to the logical channels respectively; and a plurality of second data processing sections that are assigned to the logical channels respectively, receive the pieces of data for the logical channels from the first data processing section, and process the received pieces of data, each of the plurality of second data processing sections further comprising: a buffer that temporarily accumulates data to which the second data processing section applies a process; a buffer monitoring section that monitors an amount of data accumulated in the buffer and detects that the amount of data is exceeded a predetermined threshold; and a control information generating section that generates, in response to detecting in the buffer monitoring, data-amount control information for instructing a reduction in a data transmission rate of the corresponding logical channel, and transmits the generated data-amount control information toward the another wireless communication device through the wireless communication section.