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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 14, 2011
Filed:
Nov. 27, 2008
Daisuke Iwahashi, Nara, JP;
Hideyuki Kanzaki, Hyogo, JP;
Daisuke Iwahashi, Nara, JP;
Hideyuki Kanzaki, Hyogo, JP;
Panasonic Corporation, Osaka, JP;
Abstract
A buffer management apparatus that sequentially receives L (L>1) types of data and transmits the L types of data to an external device, including: a reception unit that receives data; M (M<L) data storage units, each including a buffer area; an interval storage unit that, for each type of data, stores reception interval information; M timing units, that each time an elapsed time from a last storing of data in a corresponding data storage unit, and a control unit that, if all of the data storage units have been allocated, in particular, to different types of data, according to a judgment result based on the elapsed times and the reception interval information, either stores the received data in at least one of the data storage units in place of previously stored data, or transmits the received data to the external device.