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SERIAL TRANSMISSION APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, AND SERIAL TRANSMISSION METHOD

  • US 20120093211A1
  • Filed: 10/11/2011
  • Published: 04/19/2012
  • Est. Priority Date: 10/15/2010
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A serial transmission apparatus which performs data transmission through a serial communication line, the serial transmission apparatus comprising:

  • a transmission device to transmit data stored in a transmission data buffer to a transmission destination apparatus;

    a time-out detecting device to detect a time out when a response to the transmitted data from the transmission destination apparatus is not received within a specified period of time;

    a recovery state detecting device to detect a recovery state representing that the serial communication line is in a link recovery process; and

    a retransmission requesting device to request the transmission unit to transmit again the data which has been stored in the transmission data buffer when the time-out detecting device detects the time-out, or when the recovery state detecting device detects the recovery state of the serial communication line.

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