Patent ID: 8571130

Claim:
A transmitting apparatus for transmitting user data, the transmitting apparatus comprising: an establishing section that establishes three or more transmission paths for a receiving apparatus; a first generation section that generates a user data unit which includes user data to be transmitted to the receiving apparatus; and a second generation section that generates an error correction data unit which includes error correction data to be used for error correction of the user data to be transmitted to the receiving apparatus, wherein at least one of the three or more transmission paths transmits the error correction data unit, at least two of the three or more transmission paths transmits the user data unit the error correction data includes first error correction data to be used for error correction of the user data to be transmitted to the receiving apparatus, and second error correction data to be used for error correction of the user data to be transmitted to the receiving apparatus, the transmission path for transmitting the error correction data unit includes a transmission path for transmitting an error correction data unit including the first error correction data, and a transmission path for transmitting an error correction data unit including the second error correction data, the first error correction data is generated by a method different from a method used for generating the second error correction data, and the first and second error correction data are respectively generated from at least two streams of the user data unit.