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| 20090092060 | COMMUNICATION APPARATUS AND COMMUNICATION PARAMETER CONFIGURATION METHOD THEREOF - A communication apparatus functioning as a master device denies participation by new communication apparatuses in a network in communication parameter configuration mode based on participation statuses of communication apparatuses functioning as slave devices in the network. The communication apparatus functioning as a master device establishes the network in communication parameter configuration mode between the communication apparatuses participating in the network, and configures communication parameters. | 04-09-2009 |
| 20100046394 | COMMUNICATION APPARATUS, COMMUNICATION METHOD THEREFOR, AND PROGRAM - 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. | 02-25-2010 |
| 20100203825 | SETTING METHOD OF COMMUNICATION PARAMETERS, COMMUNICATING APPARATUS, CONTROL METHOD OF COMMUNICATING APPARATUS, AND PROGRAM - It is difficult that a providing apparatus which provides communication parameters is decided by a receiving apparatus which receives the communication parameters from the providing apparatus. Based on a discrimination condition, a first communicating apparatus selects whether the communicating apparatus operates as a relay apparatus in a communication parameter setting protocol between the providing apparatus and the receiving apparatus or operates as a proxy apparatus which executes the communication parameter setting protocol as a proxy of the providing apparatus between the providing apparatus and the receiving apparatus. | 08-12-2010 |
| 20100208896 | COMMUNICATION APPARATUS AND CONTROL METHOD THEREOF - A first communication apparatus that functions as a providing apparatus that provides an encryption key or as a receiving apparatus that receives an encryption key provided by a providing apparatus, and that performs a key sharing process for sharing an encryption key with another apparatus, the first communication apparatus includes: acquisition means for acquiring identification information of a second communication apparatus that functioned as the providing apparatus in the key sharing process performed among a plurality of apparatuses present on a network which the first communication apparatus is to join; and determination means for determining whether the first communication apparatus is to function as the providing apparatus or as the receiving apparatus based on the result of a comparison between the identification information of the second communication apparatus acquired by the acquisition means and identification information of the first communication apparatus. | 08-19-2010 |
| 20100234056 | COMMUNICATION APPARATUS AND COMMUNICATION METHOD THEREFOR - To detect a provider of communication parameters, a communication apparatus executes control so that when a signal for searching for the provider of the communication parameters is sent, an apparatus which does not serve as the provider decreases the frequency of responding to the search signal and the provider increases the frequency of responding to the search signal. | 09-16-2010 |
| 20100278343 | WIRELESS COMMUNICATION APPARATUS AND PROCESSING METHOD THEREBY - When a wireless network is constructed, a wireless communication apparatus in the wireless network constructed of a plurality of communication apparatuses decides whether to function as a providing source of communication parameters or as a provision destination that receives communication parameters. In a case where it has been decided that this apparatus is to function as the provision destination that receives communication parameters, the apparatus requests authentication when it participates in the wireless network using communication parameters. In a case where it has been decided that this apparatus is to function as the providing source of communication parameters, the apparatus execute authentication processing in response to an authentication request. | 11-04-2010 |
| 20100299435 | COMMUNICATION DEVICE, CONTROL METHOD FOR COMMUNICATION DEVICE, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - [Object] To enable a device that is a target for denial of communication to be shared over a network. | 11-25-2010 |
| 20100315976 | COMMUNICATION APPARATUS, AND COMMUNICATION METHOD THEREFOR - In order to prevent a communication-parameter automatic setting process from being performed by unintended communication apparatuses, a communication terminal having detected a plurality of communication-parameter providing apparatuses sends a notification indicating that the plurality of providing apparatuses exist to another terminal. | 12-16-2010 |
| 20100332828 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR SHARING OF AN ENCRYPTION KEY IN AN AD-HOC NETWORK - It is so arranged that an encryption key can be shared with a communication apparatus that participates in a network anew, even in an ad-hoc-mode type of environment. In order to achieve this, a communication apparatus determines whether it possesses an encryption key shared with another communication apparatus and, in accordance with the result of the determination, initiates sharing process for sharing the encryption key with a first communication apparatus from the communication apparatus after the sharing process for sharing the encryption key has been initiated from the first communication apparatus. | 12-30-2010 |
| 20110010760 | COMMUNICATION APPARATUS, CONTROL METHOD OF COMMUNICATION APPARATUS, AND PROGRAM - If automatic setting of communication parameters is performed in an ad hoc network when a communication apparatus is connected to an infrastructure network, there is a possibility that infrastructure network information is leaked to the infrastructure network. When an instruction to start the automatic setting of communication parameters is issued, a network participation state of the communication apparatus is determined and the automatic setting of communication parameters is not performed during enterprise connection. | 01-13-2011 |
| 20110029680 | COMMUNICATION APPARATUS, AND COMMUNICATION METHOD THEREFOR - In a communication-parameter providing apparatus, a search is conducted at the start of a communication-parameter automatic setting process. Upon detection of a communication apparatus, the rate at which the communication-parameter providing apparatus sends a beacon per unit time is increased, whereby a communication-parameter receiving apparatus can easily detect the communication-parameter providing apparatus. | 02-03-2011 |
| 20110082932 | COMMUNICATION APPARATUS, COMMUNICATION METHOD THEREFOR, PROGRAM, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - When a communication apparatus instructed to perform an automatic setting process detects an existing network, the communication apparatus monitors whether a communication apparatus that is in the existing network and that has a communication-parameter providing function starts an automatic setting process. When the communication apparatus in the existing network starts an automatic setting process, the communication apparatus receives communication parameters provided from the communication apparatus in the existing network. | 04-07-2011 |
| 20110142241 | COMMUNICATION APPARATUS CONFIGURED TO PERFORM ENCRYPTED COMMUNICATION AND METHOD AND PROGRAM FOR CONTROLLING THE SAME - In a communication apparatus, a storage device stores encryption keys for encrypted communication with another communication apparatus on a network. A determination is made based on a storage state of encryption keys stored in the storage device whether to provide first encryption key information and second encryption key information wherein the first encryption key information is for encrypted communication using a common encryption key among all communication apparatuses on a network and the second encryption key information is for encrypted communication using an encryption key different for each communication apparatus on the network. Communication parameters including the first encryption key information and the second encryption key information are provided to an apparatus that request for provision of communication parameters based on the determination. | 06-16-2011 |
