Patent ID: 8024789
Filing Date: 2011-09-20
Classification: H04L

Abstract:
1. A communication apparatus capable of communicating with a user terminal and another communication apparatus, comprising: a storage unit to store a first VLAN (Virtual Local Area Network) list indicating a plurality of VLANs enabling the communication apparatus to communicate with the user terminal; a receiving unit to receive a second VLAN list indicating a plurality of VLANs enabling the another communication apparatus to communicate with the user terminal and being usable by the user terminal from the another communication apparatus by using a first authentication protocol; an operation unit to create a transmission-use VLAN list including VLAN identifiers for identifying a plurality of VLANs, each of which is included in both of the first VLAN list and the second VLAN list, and VLAN names of the plurality of VLANs identified by the VLAN identifiers; and a transmission unit to transmit the transmission-use VLAN list including the VLAN identifiers for identifying the plurality of VLANs available for the user terminal and the VLAN names to the user terminal to let a user of the user terminal select a desired VLAN from the plurality of VLANs identified by the VLAN identifiers included in the transmission-use VLAN list.