Patent ID: 8654679
Filing Date: 2014-02-18
Classification: H04L,H04W

Abstract:
1. A communication apparatus, comprising: a configuration unit constructed to perform a communication parameter configuration process as one of a communication parameter providing apparatus and a communication parameter receiving apparatus; a detection unit constructed to detect that the communication parameter configuration process for sharing communication parameters with another communication apparatus is instructed by a user operation; a receiving unit constructed to receive a search signal for searching for a communication parameter providing apparatus; a selection unit constructed to select whether to input or to display information for use in an authentication process, and a response unit constructed to add information to a response to the search signal and to send the response, in a case that the user operation for the communication parameter configuration process is detected by the detection unit and the search signal is received by the receiving unit while the communication apparatus participates in a network using communication parameters that the communication apparatus received from another communication apparatus, as the communication parameter receiving apparatus, wherein, using the information, an apparatus receiving the response identifies the communication apparatus as a communication parameter providing apparatus, and wherein the response unit changes information to be added to the response according to the selection by the selection unit.