Patent ID: 9319275
Filing Date: 2016-04-19
CPC Classification: H04L,H04W

Claim Text:
1. A communication apparatus including a data storing section and being capable of serving at least one of a role as a device for allowing another communication apparatus at a position remote from the communication apparatus to access the data storing section and a role as a host for accessing a data storing section included in the other communication apparatus, the communication apparatus comprising: an access control section that controls the role to be served by the communication apparatus; an access request issuing section that issues, to the other communication apparatus, a request that the communication apparatus serve one of the roles that the communication apparatus is capable of serving; an acquisition section that acquires a request issued by the other communication apparatus and that acquires a response to the request issued by the access request issuing section; and a conflict determining section that issues, to the other communication apparatus via the access request issuing section, without exchanging capability information with the other communication apparatus in advance, a request that the communication apparatus serves the other role when the communication apparatus is capable of serving the other role, in at least one of a case where the request issued by the access request issuing section and the request issued by the other communication apparatus conflict with each other and a case where the request issued by the access request issuing section is rejected.