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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 22, 2021
Filed:
Jun. 27, 2017
Applicant:
Mitsubishi Electric Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Inventor:
Toshinori Hori, Tokyo, JP;
Assignee:
MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION, Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 12/417 (2006.01); H04L 12/403 (2006.01); H04L 12/40 (2006.01); H04L 12/413 (2006.01); H04L 12/46 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 12/417 (2013.01); H04L 12/40143 (2013.01); H04L 12/413 (2013.01); H04L 12/4604 (2013.01); H04L 2012/40241 (2013.01);
Abstract
A communication master device () manages a plurality of communication slave devices (). An investigation unit () investigates status of retention of transmission waiting data in the plurality of communication slave devices (). A period specification unit () specifies a length of a transmission permitted period in which transmission of the transmission waiting data is permitted and a length of a transmission prohibited period in which the transmission of the transmission waiting data is prohibited, based on the status of the retention of the transmission waiting data in the plurality of communication slave devices ().