Communication apparatus, communication apparatus control method, and program
AssigneeCanon Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorRyosuke Amano
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Abstract
A communication apparatus, in a case where a partner apparatus is not in the communicable state in a second mode of a first wireless communication method, specifies a predetermined memory area of the partner apparatus and transmits, to the partner apparatus using a first mode of the first wireless communication method, a communication parameter used for communication between the communication apparatus and the partner apparatus in a second wireless communication method.
Claims18
A communication apparatus comprising:
- a Near Field Communication (NFC) communication unit capable of executing a Peer to Peer (P2P) mode and a card emulation mode of NFC;
- and
- a sharing unit configured to share information necessary for connection via a wireless LAN with a partner apparatus, using the NFC communication unit,
- wherein the sharing unit is configured to share the information with another communication apparatus capable of executing the P2P mode by executing the P2P mode in the NFC communication unit, and
- wherein the sharing unit is configured to share the information with another communication apparatus incapable of executing the P2P mode by executing the card emulation mode in the NFC communication unit.
A method of a communication apparatus comprising:
- executing a Peer to Peer (P2P) mode and a card emulation mode of NFC by a Near Field Communication (NFC) communication unit;
- and
- sharing information necessary for connection via a wireless LAN with a partner apparatus, using the NFC communication unit,
- wherein the sharing shares the information with another communication apparatus capable of executing the P2P mode by executing the P2P mode in the NFC communication unit, and
- wherein the sharing shares the information with another communication apparatus incapable of executing the P2P mode by executing the card emulation mode in the NFC communication unit.
A computer readable storage medium storing a computer-executable program of instructions for causing a computer to perform a method of a communication apparatus comprising:
- executing a Peer to Peer (P2P) mode and a card emulation mode of NFC by a Near Field Communication (NFC) communication unit;
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- sharing information necessary for connection via a wireless LAN with a partner apparatus, using the NFC communication unit,
- wherein the sharing shares the information with another communication apparatus capable of executing the P2P mode by executing the P2P mode in the NFC communication unit, and
- wherein the sharing shares the information with another communication apparatus incapable of executing the P2P mode by executing the card emulation mode in the NFC communication unit.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.