Communication apparatus, program, communication method and communication system

• US 8,374,544 B2
• Filed: 06/05/2009
• Issued: 02/12/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 07/29/2008
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Inventors: Iwasaki, Jun
• Primary Examiner(s): Anderson, Matthew
• Assistant Examiner(s): Hanidu, Ganiyu A
• Application Number:
  US12/479,174
• Publication Number:
  US 20100029201A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,348 Days
• Field of Search: 455/41.1, 455/41.2, 455/466, 455/422.1, 455/424, 455/456.1, 455/63.4, 455/25, 455/158.5, 455/403
• US Class Current: 455/41.1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 21/121 Restricting unauthorised execution of programs
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0614 Improving the reliability of storage systems
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 5/24 Inductive coupling
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 5/48 Transceivers
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 5/72 for local intradevice communication
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 7/24 for communication between two or more posts wireless communication networks H04W

Abstract

A communication apparatus including a first storage unit, a second storage unit logically or physically discriminated from the first storage unit, a first communication unit, a second communication unit for transmitting data stored in the second storage unit through electric field coupling or magnetic field coupling, and a selecting unit for selecting at least either the first storage unit or the second storage unit as a storage destination of the data received by the first communication unit.

Claims

1. A communication apparatus comprising:

a first storage unit;

a second storage unit logically or physically discriminated from the first storage unit;

a first communication unit configured to receive data;

a second communication unit configured to transmit data stored in the second storage unit through electric field coupling or magnetic field coupling; and

a selecting unit configured to select at least the second storage unit as a storage destination of at least a portion of the received data received by the first communication unit based on a determination the received data includes additional information regarding storage destination data, so that the selecting unit routes at least the portion of the received data from the first communication unit to the second storage unit when the received data includes the additional information regarding the storage destination data.

2. The communication apparatus according to claim 1, wherein, in response to determining partial range data is contained in the additional information of the received data, the selecting unit selects the second storage unit as the storage destination of only a portion of the received data corresponding to the partial range data and selects the first storage unit as a storage destination for all of the received data.

3. The communication apparatus according to claim 2, wherein data stored in the first storage unit is restricted from being transmitted from the second communication unit.

7. The communication apparatus according to claim 1, wherein:

the selecting unit selects only the first storage unit as the storage destination for all of the received data in response to determining the received data does not include the additional information regarding the storage destination data, and

the selecting unit routes the received data from the first communication unit to only the first storage unit when the received data does not include the additional information regarding the storage destination data.

4. A tangible computer readable medium that when executed by the computer causes the computer to function as:

a first storage unit;

a second storage unit logically or physically discriminated from the first storage unit;

a first communication unit configured to receive data;

a second communication unit configured to transmit data stored in the second storage unit through electric field coupling or magnetic field coupling; and

a selecting unit configured to select at least the second storage unit as a storage destination of at least a portion of the received data received by the first communication unit based on a determination the received data includes additional information regarding storage destination data, so that the selecting unit routes at least the portion of the received data from the first communication unit to the second storage unit when the received data includes the additional information regarding the storage destination data.

5. A communication method comprising:

receiving data in an arbitrary communication method, by a first communication unit of a communication apparatus including first and second storage units which are logically or physically discriminated;

selecting at least the second storage unit as a storage destination of at least a portion of data received by the arbitrary communication method based on determining the received data includes additional information regarding storage destination data;

routing the received data from the first communication unit to the second storage unit when the received data includes the additional information regarding the storage destination data, and storing at least the portion of the received data in the second storage unit; and

transmitting data stored in the second storage unit through electric field coupling or magnetic field coupling.

6. A communication system comprising:

a first communication apparatus for making communication through electric field coupling or magnetic field coupling; and

a second communication apparatus including;

a first storage unit,

a second storage unit logically or physically discriminated from the first storage unit,

a first communication unit configured to receive data,

a second communication unit configured to transmit data stored in the second storage unit to the first communication apparatus through electric field coupling or magnetic field coupling, and

a selecting unit configured to select at least the second storage unit as a storage destination of at least a portion of the received data received by the first communication unit based on a determination the received data includes additional information regarding storage destination data, so that the selecting unit routes at least the portion of the received data from the first communication unit to the second storage unit when the received data includes the additional information regarding the storage destination data.