Communications apparatus and frame control method

Abstract

In a frame control method in a communications system providing a multipath function for controlling a frame having a header area and a data area, attaching, in a transmission apparatus, order information indicating a transmission order to the data area of the frame; outputting, from the transmission apparatus to a network, the frame with the attached order information, through a path selected from a plurality of paths; reading out, in a receiving apparatus, the order information from the data area of the frame received through the network; and determining, in the receiving apparatus, whether or not to transfer the received frame to a processing unit in an upper layer to process control information stored in the header area of the frame, in accordance with the read-out order information.

Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.