Patent ID: 7961735
Filing Date: 2011-06-14
Classification: H04W,Y02D

Abstract:
1. A communication apparatus, comprising: a management unit adapted to manage communication logs with other communication apparatuses and statuses related to a function of other communication apparatuses; a message receiver that receives a message indicating that a control apparatus changes from a first control apparatus to a second control apparatus that is a new control apparatus, while the communication apparatus belongs to a communication group of the first control apparatus; a communication range determination unit adapted to, if the message receiver receives the message, determine whether the communication apparatus is in a region within a communication range of the second control apparatus; an existence determination unit adapted to, if the communication range determination unit determines that the communication apparatus is in a region within the communication range of the second control apparatus, determine whether there is an outside communication apparatus that belonged to the communication group of the first control apparatus and exists in a region outside the communication range of the second control apparatus; and a management signal output unit adapted to, if the existence determination unit determines that the outside communication apparatus exists, output, as a third control apparatus, a management signal for constructing a communication group with the outside communication apparatus, according to communication logs with the outside communication apparatus and a status related to a function of the outside communication apparatus.