Patent ID: 9148904
Filing Date: 2015-09-29
Classification: H04L,H04W

Abstract:
1. A communication apparatus comprising: a specific interface; a processor; and a memory storing instructions that, when executed by the processor, causes the processor to execute: receiving a participation request from a target device through the specific interface, in a state where a first wireless network to which the communication apparatus belongs as a master station has been established, for requesting participation in the first wireless network, the target device not belonging to the first wireless network; determining whether the number of slave station apparatuses belonging to the first wireless network as a slave station is the same as a predetermined upper limit or smaller than the predetermined upper limit; transmitting first wireless setting information to the target device through the specific interface, in a first case where the participation request is received and then it is determined that the number of the slave station apparatuses is smaller than the upper limit, the first wireless setting information being currently used in the first wireless network; transmitting second wireless setting information to the target device through the specific interface, in a second case where the participation request is received and then it is determined that the number of the slave station apparatuses is the same as the upper limit, the second wireless setting information being used in a second wireless network different from the first wireless network, wherein the communication apparatus establishes communication with the second wireless network and then belongs to the second wireless network as well as the first wireless network; performing a communication of target data, in the first case, with the target device through the specific interface by using the first wireless network to which both the communication apparatus and the target device belong, after the first wireless setting information is transmitted to the target device; and performing a communication of the target data, in the second case, with the target device through the specific interface by using the second wireless network to which both the communication apparatus and the target device belong, after the second wireless setting information is transmitted to the target device.