Patent ID: 11863969
Assignee: SONY GROUP CORPORATION
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 12:
13. A communication apparatus comprising:
circuitr that
acquires, from a communication apparatus that operates as a master for controlling a sidelink communication with another apparatus, information related to the sidelink communication; and
performs a process related to the sidelink communication on a basis of the information acquired,
wherein the circuitry acquires information for operating at any operation level among two or more operation levels as operation levels of the master, and
the operation levels of the master include at least a first level corresponding to collecting and sharing with the other apparatuses information for the sidel ink communication, a second level corresponding to limiting operations of the sidelink communication of the other apparatuses, and a third level corresponding to controlling the operations of the sidelink communication of the other apparatuses.