Communication apparatus and communication method
AssigneeMatsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.
InventorsHisao Koga, Nobutaka Kodama
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Abstract
A communication apparatus 100 is equipped with, as plural communication sections capable of communicating with another communication apparatus over different transmission lines, a powerline communication section which performs a wired transmission using a powerline PL and a wireless communication section which performs a wireless transmission. The communication apparatus 100 causes at least one of the powerline communication section and the wireless communication section to perform a communication. If at least one of the powerline communication section and the wireless communication section is not to perform a communication, operation of that communication section is suspended.
Claims18
A communication apparatus which performs a communicating operation over a plurality of transmission lines, the communication apparatus comprising:
- a first communication section for performing a communicating operation over a first transmission line;
- a second communication section for performing a communicating operation over a second transmission line different from the first transmission line;
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- a control section for suspending the communicating operation of one of the first communication section and the second communication section.
A communication apparatus which performs a communication over a plurality of transmission lines, the communication apparatus comprising:
- a first communication section for performing a communication over a first transmission line;
- a second communication section for performing a communication over a second transmission line different from the first transmission line;
- an information acquiring section for acquiring transmission line information representing status of each of the first transmission line and the second transmission line;
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- a control section for selecting one of the first communication section and the second communication section on the basis of the transmission line information.
A communication method for performing a communication over a plurality of transmission lines, wherein the communication method comprising the steps of:
- performing a communicating operation over a first transmission line;
- performing a communicating operation over a second transmission line different from the first line;
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- suspending the communicating operation of one of the communicating operation over the first transmission line and the communicating operation over the second transmission line.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.