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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 12, 2016
Filed:
May. 17, 2012
Applicant:
Yasuto Masuda, Kanagawa, JP;
Inventor:
Yasuto Masuda, Kanagawa, JP;
Assignee:
SONY CORPORATION, Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 29/06 (2006.01); H04L 29/08 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 67/02 (2013.01); H04L 29/06176 (2013.01);
Abstract
A communication apparatus includes: a buffer that accumulates a plurality of data blocks; a buffer controller that reads the data blocks from the buffer to transmit the data blocks; and a transmission unit that transmits, when any of the data blocks is discarded from the buffer during the transmission of the data blocks, dummy data in place of an untransmitted portion of the data block having been discarded.