Communication apparatus, communication method therefor, and program
AssigneeCanon Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorsKenichi Fujii, Fumihide Goto
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Abstract
A communication apparatus searches for another network after a network is created, participates in another network in accordance with a role, in communication parameter setting processing, of a communication apparatus existing in another network, and executes the communication parameter setting processing. After the communication apparatus decides to receive the communication parameters from another communication apparatus, the communication apparatus determines an activation state of a providing function of a provider apparatus of the communication parameters, and requests the provider apparatus to provide the communication parameters in accordance with the determination.
Claims9
A communication apparatus, comprising:
- a decision unit constructed to decide whether to provide communication parameters for network communication to another communication apparatus or receive the communication parameters from the other communication apparatus;
- a checking unit constructed to check a provider apparatus of the communication parameters;
- a determination unit constructed to determine an activation state of a communication parameter providing function of the provider apparatus of the communication parameters after said decision unit decides that the apparatus receives the communication parameters from the other communication apparatus;
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- a request unit constructed to request the other communication apparatus to provide the communication parameters in accordance with the determination by said determination unit.
A communication method for a communication apparatus, comprising the steps of:
- deciding whether to provide communication parameters for network communication to another communication apparatus or receive the communication parameters from the other communication apparatus;
- checking a provider apparatus of the communication parameters;
- determining an activation state of a communication parameter providing function of the provider apparatus of the communication parameters after it is decided in the deciding step that said communication apparatus receives the communication parameters from the other communication apparatus;
- and
- requesting the other communication apparatus to provide the communication parameters in accordance with the determination in the determining step.
A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing a computer program, wherein the computer program causes a computer to execute the steps of:
- deciding whether to provide communication parameters for network communication to another communication apparatus or receive the communication parameters from the other communication apparatus;
- checking a provider apparatus of the communication parameters;
- determining an activation state of a communication parameter providing function of the provider apparatus of the communication parameters after it is decided in the deciding step that a communication apparatus receives the communication parameters from the other communication apparatus;
- and
- requesting the other communication apparatus to provide the
- communication parameters in accordance with the determination in the determining step.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.