Patent ID: 8265003

Claim:
A packet distribution system, characterized in that: said packet distribution system comprises: a terminal comprising: selecting means for selecting a relay peripheral terminal for relaying a packet, and a relay destination peripheral terminal that becomes a relay destination of said relay peripheral terminal from among a plurality of peripheral terminals; and reporting means for reporting identification information including information associated with at least addresses of said relay destination peripheral terminal and said relay peripheral terminal selected by said selecting means; and a communication device comprising header processing means for changing a destination of a header of the packet transmitted from a distribution node in response to a request from said terminal to the address of said relay destination peripheral terminal based upon said identification information, encapsulating this packet, and giving an external header including the address of said relay peripheral terminal; and said relay peripheral terminal comprises: data acquiring means for decapsulating the packet encapsulated by said communication device, thereby to acquire a data of a payload part; outputting means for outputting the data acquired by said acquiring means to a predetermined reproduction function; and relay processing means for re-encapsulating said decapsulated packet and relaying it to said relay destination peripheral terminal from header information being contained in said decapsulated packet and the identification information of said relay destination peripheral terminal reported from said terminal.