Data acquisition apparatus and method

A data acquisition apparatus including: a data acquiring unit 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 which receives requests to acquire data from a plurality of applications, together with conditions specifying the data; and a request condition setting scheduling unit 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 in accordance with the queue.