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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 27, 2010
Filed:
Aug. 09, 2002
Atsushi Okamori, Tokyo, JP;
Atsushi Okamori, Tokyo, JP;
Sony Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A header-information adding unit adds a device ID for identifying a device at a sending node and a device ID for identifying a device at a receiving node to a header of a packet sent by the sending node. The packet is transmitted to a data-format converting device by a packet transmitting unit. In the data-format converting device, the packet is received by a packet receiving unit, and is sent to a unique-information detecting unit. The unique-information detecting unit detects the device IDs from the header of the packet, and sends them to a data-format converting unit with the packet data. The data-format converting unit determines the data formats used by the sending node and the receiving node based on the detected device IDs, and converts the data format of the packet sent by the sending node into the data format of by the receiving node.