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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 28, 1999
Filed:
Mar. 26, 1997
Yasuhiro Morioka, Hyogo, JP;
Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba, Kawasaki, JP;
Abstract
A scheme for data transfer among data communication devices on a network which is capable of reducing a cost required for maintaining the data packet order. Uniquely defined consecutive packet numbers are generated at one data communication device among those data communication devices which are in communication state, and a packet number for each data packet to be transmitted at each data communication device is obtained from that one data communication device. Then, each data packet is transmitted at each data communication device by attaching a corresponding packet number to each data packet. On the other hand, data packets are received at each data communication device, and received data packets are processed at each data communication device in an order of packet numbers attached to the received data packets.