Patent ID: 8620209
Filing Date: 2013-12-31
Classification: H04B

Abstract:
1. A communication apparatus, comprising: a communication part that performs short-distance one-to-one communication with a communication partner apparatus including at least one of a first apparatus or a second apparatus via electric field coupling or magnetic field coupling, an operation part that accepts a user operation by the user to set or release a relay transfer mode for the communication apparatus; a relay transfer mode setting part that sets the communication apparatus into a relay transfer mode based on the user operation of the operation part; a reception processing part that a storage part that holds the data files received from the first apparatus while the relay transfer mode is set; and a transmission control part that automatically transmits, if communication is established with the second apparatus, the data files held in the storage part to the second apparatus while the relay transfer mode is set and while the communication apparatus is brought in close alignment with the second apparatus by the user, without requiring the user to select via the operation part which data file to transmit.