Data acquisition apparatus and method

A data acquisition apparatus including: a data acquiring unit 507 which receives data acquisition conditions, and when transmitted data includes pieces of data that satisfy any request conditions, extracts the pieces of data from the transmitted data; a data acquisition request receiving unit 501 which receives requests to acquire data from a plurality of applications, together with conditions specifying the data; and a request condition setting scheduling unit 113 which exercises a control to start data acquisitions by scheduling the data acquisitions for all the received requests to generate a queue of the requests, and setting corresponding conditions in the data acquiring unit 507 in accordance with the queue.