Wireless data-transferring apparatus

1. A wireless data-transferring apparatus for performing wireless communication with an information-processing terminal, comprising:

a receiving unit configured to receive broadcast program data;

an encoder configured to compression-encode the broadcast program data received by the receiving unit and to output the compression-encoded broadcast program data to a bus; and

a communication module connected to a wide area network port and configured to perform as a router for connecting the information-processing terminal to an Internet via the wide area network port and for performing data-transfer between the Internet and the information-processing terminal, wherein the communication module includes (a) a network control device connected to the wide area network port and configured to transmit data from the information-processing terminal to the Internet and to receive Web content data from the Internet, (b) a wireless communications device configured to perform wireless communication with the information-processing terminal via a wireless network and to transmit the Web content data received by the network control device to the information-processing terminal via the wireless network, the Web content data being transferred from the network control device to the wireless communications device and not transferred on the bus, and (c) a control module configured to multiplex the Web content data and the compression-encoded broadcast program data to generate time-division multiplex data and to send the generated time-division multiplex data to the wireless communications device so as to simultaneously transmit the Web content data and the compression-encoded broadcast program data to the information-processing terminal in a time-divided fashion when the compression-encoded broadcast program data from the encoder is received via the bus.

2. An apparatus according to claim 1 , including:

a disk storage device which stores the compression-encoded broadcast program data;

a down-conversion module configured to down-convert the compression-encoded broadcast program data stored in the storage device, lowering a transfer rate when the transfer of the compression-encoded broadcast program data is higher than a rate at which the data can be sent via the wireless network in real time; and

means for transferring the compression-encoded broadcast program data that has been down-converted, to the communications device via the bus.

3. An apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein the control module is configured to add to the Web content data a first session ID identifying Web browser executed in the information processing terminal and to add to the compression-encoded broadcast program data a second session ID identifying a TV application program that requests the broadcast program data and is executed in the information processing terminal.

4. A wireless data-transferring apparatus configured to be connected by radio to an information-processing terminal, comprising:

a receiving unit which receives broadcast program data demanded by a command transmitted via a wireless network from the information-processing terminal;

an encoder configured to compression-encode the broadcast program data received by the receiving unit and to output the compression-encoded broadcast program data to a bus;

a central processing unit (CPU) which controls the receiving unit and the encoder via the bus; and

a communication module connected to a wide area network port and configured to perform as a router for connecting the information-processing terminal to an Internet via the wide area network port and for performing data-transfer between the Internet and the information-processing terminal, wherein the communication module includes (a) a network control device connected to the wide area network port and configured to transmit data from the information processing terminal to the Internet and to receive Web content data from the Internet, b) a wireless communications device configured to perform wireless communication with the information-processing terminal via a wireless network and to transmit the Web content data received by the network control device to the information-processing terminal via the wireless network, the Web content data being transferred from the network control device to the wireless communications device and not transferred on the bus, and (c) a control module configured to multiplex the Web content data and the compression-encoded broadcast program data to generate time-division multiplex data and to send the generated time-division multiplex data to the wireless communications device so as to simultaneously transmit the Web content data and the compression-encoded broadcast program data to the information-processing terminal in a time-divided fashion when the compression-encoded broadcast program data from the CPU is received via the bus.

5. An apparatus according to claim 4 , wherein the control module is configured to add to the Web content data a first session ID identifying Web browser executed in the information processing terminal and to add to the compression-encoded broadcast program data a second session ID identifying a TV application program that requests that the broadcast program data be executed in the information processing terminal.