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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 02, 1998
Filed:
Sep. 05, 1997
Applicant:
Inventor:
Akitomo Sasaki, Kawasaki, JP;
Assignee:
Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
39520077 ; 39520054 ; 39520066 ; 39520065 ; 39520062 ; 340 88 ; 340 89 ; 340200 ; 370229 ; 370232 ; 370235 ; 382232 ; 382246 ; 382239 ; 382251 ;
Abstract
In a communication method and apparatus, the load of a network is reduced by compressing data or changing the data compression method in accordance with a busy state of the network. A network's busy-state monitoring unit checks the busy state of the network, and data to be transmitted is compressed or the compression method is changed in accordance with the busy state, so that the amount of transmitted data is reduced, and the load of the network is reduced.