Patent ID: 8396497
Filing Date: 2013-03-12
Classification: H04W

Abstract:
1. A communication device capable of operating in both operation modes of a base station mode in which the communication device functions as a base station and a slave station mode in which the communication device functions as a slave station, the communication device comprising: a determination unit configured to determine an operation mode of the communication device when an instruction operation by a user to start communication parameter setting is detected; and a providing unit configured to provide a communication parameter to a device that requests provision of a communication parameter through a base station in the case that the operation mode is determined by the determination unit to be the slave station mode, and to provide a communication parameter to the requesting device directly in the case that it is determined by the determination unit that the operation mode is the base station mode, wherein, in the case that the communication parameter is provided through a base station, the providing unit notifies the base station of a start of communication parameter setting processing.