Communication apparatus, communication method, program and storage medium
AssigneeCanon Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorTatsuhiko Sakai
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Abstract
A communication apparatus includes: providing means for providing communication parameters to a receiving apparatus to be provided with communication parameters; determination means for determining whether there are a plurality of providing apparatuses that provide the communication parameters; and notifying means for, in case the determination means determines that there are the plurality of apparatuses, notifying the receiving apparatus that the providing means have already provided with the communication parameters of a notification that instructs the apparatus to halt the usage of the provided communication parameters.
Claims11
A communication apparatus comprising:
- a transmitting unit configured to start a process for sharing communication parameters in response to an instruction from a user and to wirelessly transmit the communication parameters to a receiving apparatus when the receiving apparatus requests, in response to an instruction from a user, transmission of the communication parameters, wherein the communication parameters are parameters for performing a wireless communication between the communication apparatus and the receiving apparatus;
- a communication unit configured to communicate with the receiving apparatus using the communication parameters transmitted by the transmitting unit;
- and
- a notifying unit configured to transmit, to the receiving apparatus, a notification stopping uses of the communication parameters transmitted by the transmitting unit after the communication starts a communication using the communication parameters transmitted by the transmitting unit,
- wherein at least one of the providing unit and the notifying unit are implemented by one or more processors constructed to execute computer-readable instructions stored in a memory.
A communication method by a communication apparatus comprising:
- starting a process for sharing communication parameters in response to an instruction from a user and wirelessly transmitting the communication parameters to a receiving apparatus when the receiving apparatus request, in response to an instruction from user, transmission of the communication parameters, wherein the communication parameters are parameters for performing a wireless communication between the communication apparatus and the receiving apparatus;
- communicating with the receiving apparatus using the shared communication parameters;
- and
- transmitting, to the receiving apparatus, a notification stopping uses of the shared communication parameters after the communication using the shared communication parameter is started.
A non-transitory computer readable storage medium storing a program which causes a computer to:
- start process for sharing communication parameters in response to an instruction from a user and wirelessly transmitting the communication parameters to a receiving apparatus when the receiving apparatus requests, in response to an instruction from a user, transmission of the communication parameters, wherein the communication parameters are parameters for performing a wireless communication between the communication apparatus and the receiving apparatus;
- communicate with the receiving apparatus using the shared communication parameters;
- and
- transmit, to the receiving apparatus, a notification stopping uses of the shared communication parameters after the communication using the shared communication parameter is started.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.