Data communication apparatus and method

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United States of America Patent

PATENT NO 9130957
APP PUB NO 20110225308A1
SERIAL NO

13013034

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In one embodiment, a data communication apparatus includes a plurality of communications units for performing transmission and reception with the plurality of different networks, a first storage unit which stores a first identifier and a second identifier, a first processing unit which performs network protocol processing with hardware, and a second processing unit which performs network protocol processing with software. The first identifier indicates a communication unit which receives a frame, and the second identifier indicates a communication unit which transmits a frame. The first processing unit stores the first identifier in association with a reception frame in the first storage unit, and the second processing unit reads the first identifier and the reception frame from the first storage unit, generates a transmission frame as a response to the reception frame, stores the first identifier as the second identifier in association with the transmission frame in the first storage unit.

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  • KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA

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Inventor Name Address # of filed Patents Total Citations
Sugasawa, Nobuhiko Yokohama, JP 20 119
Tanaka, Shingo Yokohama, JP 114 835
Yamaura, Takahiro Kawasaki, JP 50 175

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