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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 25, 2022
Filed:
Jul. 13, 2018
Sony Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Masataka Toyoura, Tokyo, JP;
SONY CORPORATION, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
To achieve a reduction of power consumption by stopping an inter-node data input/output process and node processing by autonomous control of each node without using a management table. Included are a data processing unit that performs predetermined processing on data input from an upstream node; and a data output management unit that outputs, to a downstream node, the data on which the predetermined processing has been performed in the data processing unit, and monitors a state of the downstream node. The data output management unit controls the data processing unit to stop the data processing in a case of detecting that there is no downstream node using the output data. The stop of node processing and inter-node data input/output are performed upstream in a chain manner.