Wireless communication apparatus

Abstract

A wireless communication device comprises a transmission unit for holding a wireless control resource exclusive to the wireless communication device, the wireless control resource being used in wireless communication to the other device; a reception unit for receiving a signal including data having at least one of first information and second information; and a reception extension control unit for extending the reception interval until a time where a first predetermined duration has elapsed, in a case where the data received by the reception unit includes the first information, the reception extension control device terminating the extension of the reception interval in a case where the reception extension control unit has extended the reception interval until the time where the first predetermined duration has elapsed and where the data received thereafter by the reception unit does not contain the first information.

Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.