Patent ID: 8228945

Claim:
A streaming communication system comprising: a plurality of streaming communication apparatuses for streaming communication, and a communication relay apparatus for controlling relay of a data packet between apparatuses connected on a network, each said streaming communication apparatus including a communication unit for transmitting and receiving said data packet, and a request packet transmission unit for transmitting to said communication relay apparatus a request packet instructing bandwidth control for said streaming communication, said communication relay apparatus including a request packet reception unit for receiving said request packet, and a bandwidth control unit for carrying out said bandwidth control of said data packet according to said request packet, wherein in said request packet includes a reservation request packet including an instruction to reserve a bandwidth for said streaming communication on said network, and wherein said streaming communication apparatus further includes a data storage unit for storing data used in streaming communication, and a data determination unit for determining the bandwidth required for said streaming communication in a compression format of said data stored in said data storage unit, and said request packet transmission unit transmits said reservation request packet based on a determination result by said data determination unit, and wherein said communication relay apparatus further includes a display process unit for displaying a physical port where said bandwidth control unit carries out control according to said reservation request packet received by said request packet reception unit.