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Communications apparatus, system, and communications method

  • US 9,716,928 B2
  • Filed: 02/26/2015
  • Issued: 07/25/2017
  • Est. Priority Date: 08/29/2012
  • Status: Expired due to Fees
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1. A given communications apparatus included in a plurality of first communications apparatuses, among which at least execution results of data processing of the given communications apparatus is communicated by multi-hop communication whereby, the execution results are transmitted to a second communications apparatus that performs a process based on the execution results, the given communications apparatus comprising:

  • a storage device storing therein identification information of a specified communications apparatus that requires plural hops to communicate with the second communications apparatus and is among the plurality of first communications apparatuses, exclusive of the given communications apparatus; and

    a wireless communications circuit that transmits to a nearby communications apparatus of the given communications apparatus, request information that includes the identification information stored in the storage device and that requests the specified communications apparatus to execute the data processing of the given communications apparatus and to transmit execution results of the data processing, wherein;

    the wireless communications circuit receives from the nearby communications apparatus of the given communications apparatus, request information that includes identification information that is of an assignment-destination communications apparatus and stored in a storage device of a communications apparatus that is among the plurality of first communications apparatuses, exclusive of the given communications apparatus, the request information further requesting the assignment-destination communications apparatus to execute data processing of the communications apparatus and to transmit execution results of the data processing of the communications apparatus,the given communications apparatus further comprisesa processor that judges whether the assignment-destination communications apparatus indicated by the identification information included in the request information received by the wireless communications circuit is the given communications apparatus; and

    upon judging that the assignment-destination communications apparatus is the given communications apparatus, the processor executes the data processing that is based on the received request information, and upon judging that the assignment-destination communications apparatus is not the given communications apparatus, the processor refrains from executing the data processing that is based on the received request information, whereinthe wireless communications circuit;

    when the processor judges that the assignment-destination communications apparatus is the given communications apparatus and the processor completes the data processing that is based on the received request information, transmits execution results obtained by the processor to the nearby communications apparatus of the given communications apparatus, andwhen the processor does not complete the data process that is based on the received request information, correlates and transmits to the nearby communications apparatus of the given communications apparatus, request information that includes the identification information stored in the storage device and the execution results of the data processing completed by the processor, the request information further requesting the specified communications apparatus to execute the data processing that is based on the received request information and not completed by the processor and the request information further requesting the specified communications apparatus to transmit execution results of the data processing.

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