Patent ID: 8312078

Claim:
A data transfer system, comprising: a local control unit for acquiring data from a USB device connected to a local computer and transmitting the acquired data to a remote computer via a communication network; and a remote control unit for acquiring the data transmitted from the local control unit and transferring the acquired data to an application operating on the remote computer, wherein the local control unit has: a device control unit for receiving the data transmitted from the USB device to store the received data in a memory related to the local computer, and notifying, in response to the reception, the USB device about the successful reception; and a transfer control unit for determining whether an amount of the non-transferred data that are stored in the memory related to the local computer is equal to or greater than a threshold and, when the amount of the non-transferred data is equal to or greater than the threshold, reading the non-transferred data that are stored in the memory related to the local computer, converting the read data to a format corresponding to the communication network, and transferring the converted data to the remote computer, and the remote control unit has: a reception unit for receiving the data transmitted from the transfer control unit and storing the received data in a memory related to the remote computer; and a read control unit for reading the unread data that are stored in the memory related to the remote computer in response to a request from the application operating on the remote computer and transmitting the read data to the application in a format that can be processed by the application, and wherein the read control unit transmits dummy data to the application when unread data are not stored in the memory related to the remote computer.