Data communication apparatus

• US 6,717,982 B1
• Filed: 03/24/2000
• Issued: 04/06/2004
• Est. Priority Date: 03/25/1999
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Sanyo Electric Company Limited (Panasonic Holdings Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Sanyo Electric Company Limited (Panasonic Holdings Corporation)
• Inventors: Ishida, Takeo, Hagihara, Ryuzo, Yagi, Yasuhiro
• Primary Examiner(s): Chin, Stephen
• Assistant Examiner(s): Ha, Dac V.
• Application Number:
  US09/534,230
• Time in Patent Office: 1,474 Days
• Field of Search: 375/219, 375/220, 375/222, 375/224, 375/225, 375/228, 370/252, 370/230-232, 370/235, 370/236
• US Class Current: 375/222
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 5/1446 of transmission speed
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 11/06 Simultaneous speech and data transmission, e.g. telegraphic transmission over the same conductors

Abstract

A controller of a data communication apparatus according to the present invention stores information on each successful and unsuccessful data communication, a season, a data of the week, a time, and a data communication rate of the communication for each site in a data memory. The controller reads out a data communication rate at which a data communication succeeded from the data memory and directs a modem to conduct a communication at the data communication rate. A data communication is conducted at the directed data communication rate. These procedures ensure a secure link between sites and a secure data communication irrespective of a line distance between the sites etc.

Claims

1. A data communication apparatus for conducting a data communication with a plurality of sites on a basis of a predetermined communication parameter, comprising:

storage means for storing a communication parameter used for a data communication and a result of the data communication conducted by the communication parameter; and

control means for reading out an optimum communication parameter corresponding to a site with which a data communication is conducted from said storage means and conducting a data communication on the basis of the communication parameter, wherein

said storage means stores a communication parameter categorized by date and used for a data communication and result information of the data communication conducted by the communication parameter for each site, and

said control means reads out an optimum communication parameter corresponding to a date from said storage means and conducts a data communication on the basis of the communication parameter.

2. The data communication apparatus according to claim 1, wherein

said storage means stores a data communication rate as one of said communication parameters, and

said control means reads out a communication parameter by referring to the stored data communication rate and conducts a data communication.

3. The data communication apparatus according to claim 1, wherein

said storage means stores a plurality of result information of data communications conducted by each communication parameter, and

said control means conducts a data communication on the basis of the communication parameter among the communication result information stored in said storage means if any one of the data communications succeeded.

4. A data communication apparatus for conducting a data communication with a plurality of sites on a basis of a predetermined communication parameter, comprising:

storage means for storing a communication parameter used for a data communication and a result of the data communication conducted by the communication parameter; and

control means for reading out an optimum communication parameter corresponding to a site with which a data communication is conducted from said storage means and conducting a data communication on the basis of the communication parameter, wherein

said storage means stores a communication parameter categorized by season and used for a data communication and result information of the data communication conducted by the communication parameter for each site, and

said control means reads out an optimum communication parameter corresponding to a season from said storage means and conducts a data communication on the basis of the communication parameter.

5. The data communication apparatus according to claim 4, wherein

said storage means stores a data communication rate as one of said communication parameters, and

said control means reads out a communication parameter by referring to the stored data communication rate and conducts a data communication.

6. The data communication apparatus according to claim 4, wherein

said storage means stores a plurality of result information of data communications conducted by each communication parameter, and

said control means conducts a data communication on the basis of the communication parameter among the communication result information stored in said storage means if any one of the data communications succeeded.

7. A data communication apparatus for conducting a data communication with plurality of sites on a basis of a predetermined communication parameter;

comprising;

storage means for storing a communication parameter used for a data communication and a result of the data communication conducted by the communication parameter; and

control means for reading out an optimum communication parameter corresponding to a site with which a data communication is conducted from said storage means and conducting a data communication on the basis of the communication parameter, wherein

said storage means stores a point in time when a data communication is conducted, and

said control means reads out an optimum communication parameter corresponding to a site and a communication time from said storage means and conducts a data communication on the basis of the communication parameter.

8. A data communication apparatus for conducting a data communication with a plurality of sites comprising:

a modem for modulating and demodulating data;

storage means for storing a communication rate of said modem used in a data communication and result information of the data communication conducted at the communication rate for each site; and

control means for reading out an optimum communication rate corresponding to a site with which a data communication is conducted from said storage means and conducting a data communication by setting a modem rate to the communication rate, wherein

said storage means stores a communication rate categorized by date and used for a data communication and result information of the data communication conducted at the communication rate for each site, and

said control means reads out an optimum communication rate corresponding to data from said storage means and conducts a data communication by setting a modem rate to the communication rate.

9. The data communication apparatus according to claim 8, wherein

said storage means stores a time when a data communication is conducted, and

said control means reads out an optimum communication rate corresponding to a site and a communication time from said storage means and conducts a data communication by setting a modem rate to the communication rate.

10. The data communication apparatus according to claim 8, wherein

said storage means stores a plurality of result information of communications conducted by each communication rate, and

said control means conducts a data communication on the basis of the communication rate among the communication results information stored in said storage means if any one of the data communications succeeded.

11. A The data communication apparatus for conducting a data communication with a plurality of sites comprising:

a modem for modulating and demodulating data;

storage means for storing a communication rate of said modem used in a data communication and result information of the data communication conducted at the communication rate for each site; and

control means for reading out an optimum communication rate corresponding to a site with which a data communication is conducted from said storage means and conducting a data communication by setting a modem rate to the communication rate, wherein

said storage means stores a communication rate categorized by season and used for a data communication and result information of the data communication conducted at the communication rate for each site, and

said control means reads out an optimum communication rate corresponding to a season from said storage means and conducts a data communication by setting a modem rate to the communication rate.

12. The data communication apparatus according to claim 11, wherein

said storage means stores a time when a data communication is conducted, and

said control means reads out an optimum communication rate corresponding to a site and a communication time from said storage means and conducts a data communication by setting a modem rate to the communication rate.

13. The data communication apparatus according to claim 11, wherein

said storage means stores a plurality of result information of communications conducted by each communication rate, and

said control means conducts a data communication on the basis of the communication rate among the communication results information stored in said storage means if any one of the data communications succeeded.