Data communication apparatus

• US 20060067222A1
• Filed: 09/28/2005
• Published: 03/30/2006
• Est. Priority Date: 09/30/2004
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: GE Technology Development Incorporated (General Electric Company)
• Original Assignee: Kyocera Corporation
• Inventors: Endoh, Takashi
• Granted Patent: US 7,477,675 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 370/231
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 1/1858 Transmission or retransmission of more than one copy of acknowledgement message
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 69/16 Implementation or adaptation of Internet protocol [IP], of transmission control protocol [TCP] or of user datagram protocol [UDP]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 69/163 In-band adaptation of TCP data exchange; In-band control procedures

Abstract

When data has been received by a sending and reception unit, a transmission control unit generates an ACK and outputs it to an ACK reduction unit. A reception interval measuring unit detects a time interval in the data which is received, and starts ACK reduction process by the ACK reduction unit if this time interval is greater than or equals to a first predetermined value. In this case, the ACK reduction unit reduces the number of ACKs which are transmitted via the sending and reception unit. An ACK interval measuring unit detects a time interval of generating ACKs by the transmission control unit, and stops the ACK reduction process by the ACK reduction unit if this time interval is greater than or equals to a second predetermined value.

Claims

1. A data communication apparatus, comprising:

a sending and receiving unit which sends and receives data;

a transmission control unit which generates acknowledge response information corresponding to data which has been received by the sending and receiving unit, and outputs the acknowledge response information via the sending and receiving unit;

a first detection unit which detects a reception interval in the data which is received by the sending and receiving unit;

a second detection unit which detects interval of generation of the acknowledge response information generated by the transmission control unit; and

a reduction unit which, if the reception interval detected by the first detection unit exceeds a predetermined interval, reduces the acknowledge response information generated by the transmission control unit, until the interval which is detected by the second detection unit exceeds a predetermined interval.

2. A data communication apparatus according to claim 1, wherein, if the reception interval detected by the first detection unit exceeds the predetermined interval, the reduction unit reduces the acknowledge response information by storing only the latest acknowledge response information generated by the transmission control unit.

3. A data communication apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising:

a duplicate detection unit which detects duplicate of identification information of the acknowledge response information generated by the transmission control unit;

wherein,

the reduction unit reduces the acknowledge response information after a predetermined number of duplicates which have been detected by the duplicate detection unit.

4. A data communication apparatus, comprising:

a sending and receiving unit which performs data sending and reception;

a repeat request unit which performs detection related to errors of data received by the sending and receiving unit, and which requests repeat of the data if it has detected an error;

a storage unit which stores data in which there are no errors and which is received before receiving the data for which the repeat request has been made is received; and

a control unit which outputs the data which is stored in the storage unit at a predetermined rate, if the data for which the repeat request has been made is not received within a predetermined time interval.

5. A data communication apparatus according to claim 4, further comprising:

a congestion detection unit which detects congestion based upon data received by the sending and receiving unit;

wherein,

the control unit reduces the predetermined rate if the congestion detection unit has detected congestion.

6. A data communication apparatus according to claim 4, further comprising:

a congestion detection unit which detects congestion based upon data sent by the sending and receiving unit;

wherein,

the control unit reduces the predetermined rate if the congestion detection unit has detected congestion.