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US 11,082,503 B2Granted
Communication apparatus, control method and non-transitory computer-readable storage medium
AssigneeCanon Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorHitoshi Aoki
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Abstract
A communication apparatus notifies that service information is to be communicated outside a cyclically repeated period in which a plurality of apparatuses including the communication apparatus transmits or receives a beacon to another communication apparatus included in the plurality of apparatuses and being a destination of the service information.
Claims11
A communication apparatus comprising:
- one or more processors;
- and
- one or more memories including instructions that, when executed by the one or more processors, cause the communication apparatus to:
- communicate service information in a case where the size of the service information is smaller than a predetermined value in a cyclically repeated period in which a plurality of apparatuses including the communication apparatus transmit or receive a beacon;
- communicate the service information outside the period in a case where the size of the service information is larger than the predetermined value;
- and
- notify in the period that the service information is to be communicated outside the period to the other communication apparatus being a destination of the service information among the plurality of apparatuses in a case where the service information is to be communicated outside the period,
- wherein, in a case where the communication apparatus divides the service information into a plurality of pieces each having a size smaller than the predetermined value and communicates the plurality of divided service information pieces, the service information is communicated in the period even in a case where the size of the service information is larger than the predetermined value.
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A communication method to be executed by a communication apparatus, the method comprising:
- firstly communicating service information in a case where the size of the service information is smaller than a predetermined value in a cyclically repeated period in which a plurality of apparatuses including the communication apparatus transmit or receive a beacon;
- secondly communicating the service information outside the period in a case where the size of the service information is larger than the predetermined value;
- and
- notifying in the period that the service information is to be communicated outside the period to the other communication apparatus being a destination of the service information among the plurality of apparatuses in a case where the service information is to be communicated outside the period,
- wherein, in a case where the communication apparatus divides the service information into a plurality of pieces each having a size smaller than the predetermined value and communicates the plurality of divided service information pieces, the service information is communicated in the period even in a case where the size of the service information is larger than the predetermined value.
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A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing a computer program for causing a computer to function as:
- a communicating unit configured to communicate service information in a case where the size of the service information is smaller than a predetermined value in a cyclically repeated period in which a plurality of apparatuses including a communication apparatus transmit or receive a beacon;
- a control unit configured to control the communicating unit so as to communicate the service information outside the period in a case where the size of the service information is larger than the predetermined value;
- and
- a notifying unit configured to notify in the period that the service information is to be communicated outside the period to the other communication apparatus being a destination of the service information among the plurality of apparatuses in a case where the service information is to be communicated outside the period,
- wherein, in a case where the communication apparatus divides the service information into a plurality of pieces each having a size smaller than the predetermined value and communicates the plurality of divided service information pieces, the service information is communicated in the period even in a case where the size of the information is larger than the predetermined value.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.