Patent ID: 7818363

Claim:
A communications system for transmitting data including, as a destination address, a second terminal ID, from a first terminal to a second terminal via a plurality of access points, the system comprising: a first access point wirelessly connected to the first terminal, the first access point including: a first memory configured to store a first terminal ID, the second terminal ID, a destination transfer device ID identifying a second access point wirelessly connected to the second terminal, and a communication ID element, which is an element to identify communication with the first terminal and the second terminal, associating them with one another; a receiver configured to search the first memory in accordance with a data transmission request including the first terminal ID and the second terminal ID and control information, the data transmission request received from the first terminal, and to transmit a transmission setting response including the communication ID element associated with the first terminal ID and the second terminal ID, to the first terminal; and a routing processor configured to add to the data the destination transfer device ID identifying the second access point and being associated with the communication ID element included in the data, the data received from the first terminal in accordance with the transmission setting response, and to transfer the data to the second access point; and a network manager, including a third memory configured to store the first terminal ID, the second terminal ID, the destination transfer device ID identifying the second access point and the communication ID element, associating them with one another; and an instruction information transmitter configured to transmit instruction information including the destination transfer device ID identifying the second access point and the communication ID element associated with the first terminal ID and the second terminal ID, in response to a transfer request including the first terminal ID and the second terminal ID transmitted from the first access point, wherein the first access point further comprises a transfer request transmitter configured to transmit the transfer request including the first terminal ID and the second terminal ID to the network manager upon receiving a transmission request for the data from the first terminal; and the first memory is configured to store the first terminal ID, the second terminal ID, the destination transfer device ID identifying the second access point, and the communication ID element, associating then with one another, according to the instruction information from the network manager.