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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 04, 2018
Filed:
Feb. 23, 2015
Mitsubishi Electric Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
There are provided: a transfer management table storage unit to store a transfer management table which indicates transfer destination ports for frames received from another transfer device, the another transfer device being configured to transmit a frame low in importance of received frames without copying this frame and to transmit an important frame of received frames to paths made redundant by copying the important frame, the important frame being a frame higher in importance than the frame low in importance; an adjacent information table storage unit to store an adjacent information table which indicates information about instruments connected to the ports; and a transfer destination management unit to control whether to transfer an important frame received from another transfer device by use of the transfer management table and the adjacent information table.