Patent ID: 9712487
Date: 2017-07-18
CPC Classifications: H04L

Claim:
1. A communication apparatus comprising: one or more processors; and one or more memories including instructions that, when executed by the processor(s), cause the apparatus to: set a first address, which is used by the communication apparatus in a first wireless network; join the first wireless network, and newly join a second wireless network while keeping joining the first wireless network; determine, when newly joining the second wireless network, whether or not a network address part of the first address is in common with a first network address that the communication apparatus attempts to use in the second wireless network; and set a second address that the communication apparatus uses in the second wireless network in accordance with a result of the determine, wherein the communication apparatus sets, in a case where the network address part of the first address is in common with the first network address, an address obtained using a second network address different from the first network address as the second address, without changing an address used by the communication apparatus in the first wireless network from the first address that has been set, and wherein the communication apparatus sets, in a case where the network address part of the first address is not in common with the first network address, an address obtained using the first network address as the second address, without changing an address used by the communication apparatus in the first wireless network from the first address that has been set.