Patent ID: 7187740

Claim:
A communications device for performing data communications within a network configured by a plurality of devices, the communications device comprising: a data processing section for performing a predetermined process on data transmitted from another device connected to the communications device and generating data to be transmitted to the other device; a synchronization detecting section for detecting a loss of synchronization in data communications with the other device; a data communications controlling section for controlling data communications between the other device and the data processing section, disabling, upon detection by the synchronization detecting section of the loss of synchronization, at least one of a data input from the other device to the data processing section or a data output from the data processing section to the other device, and then enabling again the disabled data input or data output; and a connection processing section for performing, when the data communications controlling section again enables the data input or the data output, a connecting process for enabling data communications with the other device.