TRANSFER MODULE, INFORMATION-TRANSFER NETWORK SYSTEM, INFORMATION TRANSFER METHOD, AND INFORMATION TRANSFER PROGRAM

摘要

This invention addresses the problem of combining smooth information transfer with a reduction in the amount of power consumed thereby in a transfer module that acts as a relay. In said transfer module, which transfers prescribed transmission information via a prescribed transfer path that includes an information processing device, said prescribed transmission information is stored in a memory in the transfer module such that a plurality of prescribed pieces of information included in the prescribed transmission information are laid out so that the location at which each prescribed piece of information is stored in the memory is associated with a priority degree set by a priority-degree setting means. On the basis of the result of a transfer to a downstream transfer module, some of the prescribed pieces of information are extracted from the stored prescribed transmission information in accordance with the storage locations thereof and new prescribed transmission information to transmit to the downstream transfer module is created and transmitted to said downstream transfer module.