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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 11, 2002
Filed:
Jan. 20, 1999
Toshikazu Hattori, Kadoma, JP;
Susumu Ibaraki, Sakai, JP;
Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd., Osaka, JP;
Abstract
A network system includes at least one transmitting apparatus connected to a network for outputting packets containing data to the network and at least one receiving apparatus connected to the network for receiving from the network the packets that have been output from the transmitting apparatuses, the transmitting apparatuses and the receiving apparatuses making up plural transmitting/receiving systems. The network system includes a data packet monitor for monitoring the packets transmitted through the network and detecting the amount of data in the packets to be used in a specified transmitting/receiving system; and band manager for determining a bandwidth on the network to be used by the specified transmitting/receiving system, based on the amount of data in the packets that is detected by the data packet monitor.