Patent ID: 6904049

Claim:
A data transfer system for transferring data over a serial bus via a communication network to another serial bus, said system comprising: a packet selecting section for selecting only one or more specified packets out of a plurality of packets received in a serial manner over a serial bus, based on header information included in each of the plurality of received packets; a packet creating section for collecting said one or more specified packets selected by said packet selecting section, in order of received timing, to create a transfer packet; a cell sending section for converting said transfer packets created by said packet creating section into a cell able to be sent onto said communication network and then sending said cell onto said communication network; a packet reconfiguring section for receiving said cell from said predetermined communication network and then reconfiguring a packet so as to have same contents as said transfer packet created by said packet creating section; and a packet dividing/transferring section for dividing said transfer packet reconfigured by said packet reconfiguring section and then transferring a plurality of the divided packets in a serial manner over the other serial bus.