Patent ID: 8467332

Claim:
An information receiving apparatus, comprising: a wireless transceiver for transmitting and receiving a wireless packet; a packet generator for generating a wireless packet to be transmitted by the wireless transceiver; and a controller for controlling the wireless transceiver and the packet generator, wherein the wireless transceiver receives a first wireless packet for data streaming transmission sequentially transmitted by a first information transmitting apparatus followed by a non-transmission period by the first information transmitting apparatus, the first wireless packet containing time-position information indicating whether or not the non-transmission period that follows is assigned to transmission from the information receiving apparatus to the first information transmitting apparatus, and wherein the packet generator generates a second wireless packet for control information transmission transmitted to the first information transmitting apparatus by the wireless transceiver, the second wireless packet containing time-position information indicating the same non-transmission period that the time-position information contained in the first wireless packet received by the wireless transceiver indicates.