Patent application number | Description | Published |
20100235497 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS AND COMMUNICATION PROCESSING METHOD THEREOF - An information processing apparatus including a first communication interface for individually communicating with a plurality of communication terminals without involvement of a public network and a second communication interface for communicating with involvement of a public network, wherein the apparatus provides services, via the first communication interface or via the first communication interface and the second communication interface, to a plurality of communication terminals that perform communication via the first communication interface, manages information regarding a communication interface used by each service and information regarding the service provided, and controls communication performed with the first and the second communication interfaces based on the managed information. When disconnection of communication performed with either one of the first and the second communication interfaces has been detected, the apparatus performs control relating to disconnection of communication performed with the communication interface in which disconnection was not detected based on the managed information. | 09-16-2010 |
20100293271 | COMMUNICATION APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING COMMUNICATION APPARATUS - A first communication apparatus for use in a network established by a plurality of communication apparatuses to implement a predetermined system function includes a sending unit configured to send, to the network, information on an apparatus function for implementing the predetermined system function to accommodate a communication apparatus having the apparatus function in the network, and an execution unit configured to execute processing for accommodating a second communication apparatus having the apparatus function sent by the sending unit in the network according to a request from the second communication apparatus. | 11-18-2010 |
20120028571 | COMMUNICATION APPARATUS, RELAY APPARATUS, WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, CONTROL METHOD OF COMMUNICATION APPARATUS, CONTROL METHOD OF RELAY APPARATUS, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - A communication apparatus, which is connected to a relay apparatus, and transmits data to a server apparatus connected via the relay apparatus, includes a determination unit which determines whether the communication apparatus or the relay apparatus holds an access function required to execute access processing to the server apparatus, a decision unit which decides, according to the determination result, a transmission method required to transmit the data by controlling an access processing unit of the apparatus that holds the access function to execute the access processing, and a transmission unit which transmits the data by the decided transmission method. | 02-02-2012 |
20120030735 | COMMUNICATION APPARATUS, RELAY APPARATUS, WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, CONTROL METHOD OF COMMUNICATION APPARATUS, CONTROL METHOD OF RELAY APPARATUS, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - A communication apparatus, which is connected to a relay apparatus, and transmits data to a server apparatus connected via the relay apparatus, includes a determination unit which determines whether the communication apparatus or the relay apparatus holds authentication information used in authentication processing required to access the server apparatus, a decision unit which decides, according to the determination result, a transmission method required to transmit the data by controlling an authentication processing unit of the apparatus that holds the authentication information to execute the authentication processing, and a transmission unit which transmits the data by the decided transmission method. | 02-02-2012 |
20120308081 | POSITION INFORMATION ACQUIRING APPARATUS, POSITION INFORMATION ACQUIRING APPARATUS CONTROL METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - A position information acquiring apparatus comprises: a first acquiring unit configured to acquire first position information of the position information acquiring apparatus upon image capturing; a first storage unit configured to store image data generated by the image capturing and the first position information in a memory in association with each other; a second acquiring unit configured to acquire second position information of the position information acquiring apparatus upon image capturing; and a second storage unit configured to store the second position information in the memory in association with the image data when the second position information higher in accuracy than the first position information is acquired after the first storage unit stores the image data and the first position information in association with each other. | 12-06-2012 |
20140176736 | COMMUNICATION APPARATUS, CONTROL METHOD OF COMMUNICATION APPARATUS AND PROGRAM - A communication apparatus of the present invention includes a first acquisition unit configured to acquire first information that causes the communication apparatus to decide whether a different communication apparatus has a function to disconnect a power source according to an instruction from the communication apparatus, a second acquisition unit configured to acquire second information that shows an operation mode of the different communication apparatus, and a notification unit configured to notify a user that, in a case where the wireless communication with the different communication apparatus is disconnected, the different communication apparatus is instructed to disconnect the wireless communication and disconnect the power source of the different communication apparatus according to the first information and the second information. | 06-26-2014 |
20150023242 | COMMUNICATION APPARATUS, METHOD OF CONTROLLING COMMUNICATION APPARATUS, AND PROGRAM - The present invention is directed to a communication apparatus that can notify other communication apparatuses that do not receive a multicast signal, of information on a function provided by the communication apparatus when the communication apparatus sends the multicast signal to notify the information on the function provided by the communication apparatus. The communication apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention sends a unicast packet containing the information about the function together with the multicast packet to another communication apparatus which does not receive the multicast packet, but does not send the unicast packet together with the multicast packet to another communication apparatus determined as receiving the multicast packet. | 01-22-2015 |
20150289194 | COMMUNICATION APPARATUS, CONTROL METHOD FOR THE SAME, COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM - A communication apparatus capable of relaying communication between an external apparatus and a communication terminal, determines whether or not a wireless network that enables connection to the external apparatus exists, and decides on a communication mode between the external apparatus and the communication terminal according to a wireless network that was determined as being connectable. | 10-08-2015 |