Communication device
AssigneeSeiko Epson Corporation
InventorShinya SAKASHITA
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Abstract
A communication device configured to performing communication with an external device. The communication device includes a calculation unit, a recording unit configured to record a first firmware that makes the calculation unit function in a first mode, and a second firmware that makes the calculation unit function in a second mode that is different from the first mode, and a communication unit, when the calculation unit receives a signal from the external device in a designated state switching from execution of the first firmware to execution of the second firmware, configured to make a response not according to contents of the received signal.
Claims6
A communication device configured to perform communication with an external device, the communication device comprising:
- a calculation unit;
- a recording unit configured to record a first firmware that makes the calculation unit function in a first mode, and a second firmware that makes the calculation unit function in a second mode that is different from the first mode;
- and
- a communication unit, when receiving a signal from the external device in a designated state in which the calculation unit switches from execution of the first firmware to execution of the second firmware, configured to make a response not according to contents of the received signal.
The communication device according to claim I, wherein
- the communication unit is configured to respond with NULL in the designated state when a signal is received from the external device.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.