Patent ID: 9049587
Filing Date: 2015-06-02
Classification: H04W

Abstract:
1. A communication apparatus, comprising: a providing unit configured to operate as a providing apparatus that provides communication parameters to a receiving communication apparatus that receives the provided communication parameters; a receiving unit configured to receive, from another communication apparatus configured to operate as a providing apparatus that provides communication parameters to the receiving communication apparatus, a state notification message, which indicates a start or end of a communication-parameters providing process performed by the another communication apparatus and is provided by the another communication apparatus configured to operate as the providing apparatus; and a control unit configured to store state notification information in a memory of the communication apparatus at the start of the communication-parameters providing process performed by the another communication apparatus and to delete the state notification information from the memory of the communication apparatus at the end of the communication-parameters providing process performed by the another communication apparatus, wherein the communication apparatus does not perform the communication-parameters providing process as a providing apparatus in a case where the state notification information is stored in the memory.