Patent ID: 7710997

Claim:
A security output device comprising: an output data receiving unit that receives output data based on a communication setting related to setting of a communication path; an output unit that performs output based on the output data received by the output data receiving unit; an output start notification receiving unit that receives an output start notification indicating start of output of the output data; a communication setting content deciding unit that decides a content of the communication setting in accordance with the output start notification received by the output start notification receiving unit, wherein the communication setting is a setting related to setting a plurality of the communication paths, the output data receiving unit receives divided output data that are divided into plural data by a predetermined division technique, via the plural communication paths, wherein the predetermined division technique deciding division rates by issuing division numbers by a number of communication ports, uniformly allocating an initial rate to each division number, and adding a predetermined rate to a randomly selected division number, wherein the division rates represent data sizes to which output data should be divided in accordance with the number of communication ports; and a communication setting execution unit that executes the communication setting based on the content decided by the communication setting content deciding unit.