Communication apparatus, control method, and storage medium
AssigneeCanon Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorAtsushi Shimazaki
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Abstract
A communication apparatus is provided which includes a control unit configured to perform control so that an execution frequency of predetermined communication in a state in which a connection using a communication method other than a Neighbor Awareness Network is established is lower than an execution frequency of the predetermined communication in a state in which a connection using the communication method other than the Neighbor Awareness Network is not established.
Claims20
A communication apparatus which executes communication using a Neighbor Awareness Network and communication using a communication method other than the Neighbor Awareness Network, the communication apparatus comprising:
- at least one processor,
- wherein the at least one processor is configured to function as:
- a communication unit configured to execute communication of a predetermined signal based on the Neighbor Awareness Network with another communication apparatus in a discovery window which is a period in which the predetermined signal is communicated and which comes at a predetermined time interval;
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- a control unit configured to control the communication unit so that a number of times communication of the predetermined signal is executed per unit time in a state in which a connection using the communication method other than the Neighbor Awareness Network is established is smaller than a number of times communication of the predetermined signal is executed per unit time in a state in which the connection using the communication method other than the Neighbor Awareness Network is not established.
A method for controlling a communication apparatus which executes communication using a Neighbor Awareness Network and communication using a communication method other than the Neighbor Awareness Network, the method comprising:
- executing predetermined communication using the Neighbor Awareness Network with another communication apparatus in a discovery window which is a period which is defined based on the Neighbor Awareness Network, has a predetermined length, and comes at a predetermined time interval;
- and
- controlling communication using the Neighbor Awareness Network so that a number of times communication of a predetermined signal is executed per unit time in a state in which a connection using the communication method other than the Neighbor Awareness Network is established is smaller than the number of times the communication of the predetermined signal is executed per unit time in a state in which the connection using the communication method other than the Neighbor Awareness Network is not established.
A storage medium storing a program for causing a computer in a communication apparatus which executes communication using a Neighbor Awareness Network and communication using a communication method other than the Neighbor Awareness Network to execute:
- predetermined communication using the Neighbor Awareness Network with another communication apparatus in a discovery window which is a period which is defined based on the Neighbor Awareness Network, has a predetermined length, and comes at a predetermined time interval;
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- controlling communication using the Neighbor Awareness Network so that a number of times communication of a predetermined signal is executed per unit time in a state in which a connection using the communication method other than the Neighbor Awareness Network is established is smaller than the number of times the communication of the predetermined signal is executed per unit time in a state in which the connection using the communication method other than the Neighbor Awareness Network is not established.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.