COMMUNICATION ASSISTING APPARATUS AND COMMUNICATION SYSTEM EMPLOYING APPARATUS

摘要

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a communication assisting apparatus or the like for relieving a processing load on a data transmission side and stabilizing the processing. SOLUTION: The communication auxiliary apparatus mediates data transfer between first and second data processing apparatuses. The communication assisting apparatus is provided with: a first connection unit connected to the first data processing apparatus through wired communication to receive data; a memory for storing the data received by the first connection unit; and a second connection unit wirelessly connected to the second data processing apparatus and transmitting the data read from the memory to the second data processing apparatus. Since the communication assisting apparatus once stores the data to its memory, the first data processing apparatus proceeds to a succeeding processing independently of a communication state so that the operation efficiency can be enhanced. Further, since the communication assisting apparatus wirelessly transmits the data thereafter, the communication assisting apparatus newly transmits the stored data even on the occurrence of communication disturbance or the like not caused by wired communication, and the operation of the first data processing apparatus is also stabilized. COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO&NCIPI