US 2019/0104392 A1 · COMMUNICATION METHOD, INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, AND RECORDING MEDIUM RECORDING COMPUTER READABLE PROGRAM

Abstract

A communication method includes: a first transmission step of transmitting first setting information and first network organization information regarding one information processing apparatus of a second network via a first communication path; a first determination step of determining a role of communication with a first master apparatus via a second communication path on the basis of the first network organization information and role adjustment information; a second transmission step of transmitting second setting information and second network organization information to the first master apparatus via the first communication path; a second determination step of determining a role of the communication with a second master apparatus via the second communication path on the basis of the second network organization information and role adjustment information by the first master apparatus; and a first communication start step of starting the communication via the second communication path with another information processing apparatus.

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Dependent claims

An information processing apparatus comprising:

a first communication unit configured to communicate with a first external apparatus via a first communication path;
a second communication unit configured to communicate with the first external apparatus via a second communication path, wherein the second communication path uses a different frequency range than the first communication path;
and
a controller configured to make the second communication unit communicate directly with the first external apparatus via the second communication path when a role of the information processing apparatus is a first role.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application

16/208,089Filed 3 Dec 2018

Priority

JP 2009-1385939 Jun 2009

Published

4 Apr 2019

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Classification6 codes

H04W 4/80
Services specially adapted for wireless communication networks; Facilities therefor: services using short range communication, e.g. near-field…
H04W 12/50
Security arrangements; Authentication; Protecting privacy or anonymity: secure pairing of devices
H04W 72/0453
Based on the type of the allocated resource: resources in frequency domain, e.g. a carrier in FDMA
H04W 84/20
Self-organising networks, e.g. ad-hoc networks or sensor networks: leader-follower arrangements

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Application12/779,265Continuation · filed 13 May 2010

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Communication method, information processing apparatus, and recording medium recording computer readable program

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Communication method, information processing apparatus, and recording medium recording computer readable program

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Claims17