Patent ID: 8477805

Claim:
A wireless communication apparatus comprising: a reception unit which receives a first frame with a frame length of a first length using a first wireless method; a storage unit which stores a part or whole of the first frame received by the reception unit; a transfer amount decision unit which sets a third length to be a second length when the second length decided based on the first wireless method is smaller than the first length, and sets the third length to be a value not more than the first length when the second length is not less than the first length; a first transfer control unit which transfers transfer information including first information of the third length to a first memory, and transfers the first frame by the first length to a second memory different from the first memory, the first information being included in the first frame, and a processor which analyzes the first information, wherein the second length is a maximum length of a MAC header specified by the first wireless method, the third length is related to an amount of information transferred to the second memory, and an access speed to the first memory by the processor is higher than an access speed to the second memory by the processor.