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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 27, 2013
Filed:
Oct. 05, 2009
Hideki Hinosugi, Tokyo, JP;
Yoshihiko Sakata, Yokohama, JP;
Hideki Hinosugi, Tokyo, JP;
Yoshihiko Sakata, Yokohama, JP;
Alaxala Networks Corporation, Kanagawa, JP;
Abstract
In a transmission system of transferring a packet input from a first device to a second device via a network, a receiver device comprises a storage module configured to successively accumulate received packets, which are transferred over a multiple transmission paths, in correlation to each of the multiple transmission paths, a packet selector configured to sequentially perform a packet selection process with respect to each of the received packets accumulated in the storage module, where after elapse of a predetermined time period since a receipt time of a first packet received by the receiver device, the packet selection process respectively reads out one packet for each of the multiple transmission paths among the received identical packets, which are accumulated in correlation to each of the multiple transmission paths, and selects one packet with higher reliability out of the read-out packets, and an output module configured to output the packet selected by the packet selector to the second device.