Patent ID: 8520688

Claim:
A receiver device comprising: a storage module configured to successively receive multiple identical packets which are transferred over multiple transmission paths between a first device and a second device via a network, and accumulate the packets in correlation to each of the multiple transmission paths; a packet selector configured to sequentially perform a packet selection process with respect to each of the received packets accumulated in the storage module, where after elapse of a predetermined time period since a receipt time of a first packet received by the receiver device, the packet selection process respectively reads out one packet for each of the multiple transmission paths among the received identical packets, which are accumulated in correlation to each of the multiple transmission paths, and selects one packet with higher reliability out of the read-out packets; and an output module configured to output the packet selected by the packet selector to the second device; wherein the output module calculates, on a basis of packet size of the selected packet received by the receiver device, an input band of the selected packet, and controls an output band of the selected packet to the calculated input band of the selected packet received by the receiver device and outputs the selected packet with the controlled output band.