Patent ID: 7864781

Claim:
A system comprising a first information processing apparatus and a second information processing apparatus that is connected to the first information processing apparatus via a transmitting path, the first information processing apparatus is configured, to generate a communication request associated with the second information processing apparatus; to output a first data having an address of a first form to the second information processing apparatus based on the communication request, and to periodically output a first communication management data having an address of the first form; the second information processing apparatus is configured, to receive the first data from the network management unit and convert the first data to a second data including an address of a second form and output the second data, to receive the first communication management data from the periodic output and to convert the first communication management data to a second communication management data including an address of the second form based on an address pair including an address of the first form and an address of the second form in a memory unit and to output the second communication management data, to generate and output a second communication management data when a time period has elapsed without receiving any first communication management data from the periodic output; and to send the second data and the second communication management data to the transmitting path; the address of the first form is a virtual address and the address of the second form is a real address.