Patent ID: 7136917

Claim:
A communication system comprising: a content database for storing content data therein; a content server for reading a part of the content data as read data from the content database in response to a request from a mobile body and transmitting the read data in packets over a public network; a network management server for temporarily storing in a memory and managing a distribution of the read data transmitted over the public network; a plurality of transmitter stations for transmitting the read data to the mobile body; and a plurality of dividing devices arranged in series and linked with the plurality of transmitter stations, respectively, for receiving the read data from the network management server and relaying the read data from one dividing device to a next dividing device so that the read data is dividedly transmitted from the plurality of transmitter stations, the one dividing device dividing out a part of the read data for transmission from one transmitter station linked therewith and relaying a remaining part of the read data to the next dividing device.