Communication parameter setting method, communicating apparatus, and managing apparatus for managing communication parameters

A communicating apparatus comprising:

• a detecting device that detects a managing apparatus that is operating in a setting mode for providing wireless communication parameters, wherein the wireless communication parameters comprise at least one of an encrypting system, an encryption key, an authenticating system and an authentication key;
• and
• a notifying device that, if the detecting device detects a plurality of managing apparatuses operating in the setting mode for providing wireless communication parameters while the communication apparatus is operating in a setting mode for receiving the wireless communication parameters from the managing apparatus, notifies the managing apparatuses operating in the setting mode that the plurality of managing apparatuses operating in the setting mode exists.

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A method of sharing wireless communication parameters comprising at least one of an encrypting system, an encryption key, an authenticating system and an authentication key, wherein the wireless communication parameters are shared between communicating apparatuses, the method comprising:

• detecting, at a first communicating apparatus, one or more other communicating apparatuses operating in a setting mode for sharing the wireless communication parameters between the communicating apparatuses, while the first communicating apparatus is operating in the setting mode;
• sending, at the first communicating apparatus, a notification of overlap onto a network, in accordance with a number of detected communicating apparatuses operating in the setting mode.

A communicating apparatus comprising:

• a detecting device that detects one or more other communicating apparatuses operating in a setting mode for sharing wireless communication parameters between communicating apparatus, while the communicating apparatus is operating in the setting mode, wherein the wireless communication parameters comprise at least one of an encrypting system, an encryption key, an authenticating system and an authentication key;
• and
• a sending device that sends a notification of overlap onto a network, in accordance with a number of the other communicating apparatuses operating in the setting mode.