Patent ID: 7725136

Claim:
An information processing apparatus, comprising: a transfer control unit configured to control streaming transfer of encoded audio data to a terminal through wireless communication; a hands-free control unit configured to control hands-free communication with the terminal through wireless communication, by performing a call control in incoming and outgoing calls between the information processing apparatus and the terminal through wireless communication; a transmitting/receiving unit configured to transmit/receive data to/from the terminal; and a retransmission control unit configured to control retransmission of data to be transmitted to the terminal by the transmitting/receiving unit so as to prevent delay of data transmission in the streaming transfer of the encoded audio data to the terminal through the wireless communication by the transfer control unit and to control the retransmission of the data so as to prevent loss of the data to be transmitted in control over the hands-free communication with the terminal through the wireless communication by the hands-free control unit; the retransmission control unit controls the retransmission of data so as to prevent delay of data transmission till the information processing apparatus receives an incoming call signal transmitted from another information processing apparatus and controls the retransmission of data so as to prevent loss of the data to be transmitted after the information processing apparatus receives the incoming call signal transmitted from the another information processing apparatus, if the streaming transfer of the encoded audio data to the terminal through the wireless communication by the transfer control unit and the call control in the incoming and outgoing calls between the information processing apparatus and the terminal through the wireless communication by the hands-free control unit are operated in connection.