Patent ID: 8462744

Claim:
A base station in a system for making a management apparatus that manages a wireless parameter of a wireless network formed by the base station set the wireless parameter to a wireless communication apparatus through the base station, comprising: a detection unit configured to detect an operation for designating a start of wireless parameter setting; a request unit configured to request the management apparatus to start a wireless parameter setting process when said detection unit detects the operation; a notification unit configured to notify the wireless communication apparatus of wireless parameter setting information containing wireless parameter setting start enable/disable information as a response to the request from said request unit; a management unit configured to manage a management apparatus registered in the base station; and a selection unit configured to select, as a wireless parameter setting start request target, one of a plurality of management apparatuses managed by said management unit when said detection unit detects the operation, wherein the wireless communication apparatus executes or stops the wireless parameter setting process between the management apparatus through the base station based on the wireless parameter setting information received from the base station, and said request unit requests the management apparatus selected by said selection unit to start wireless parameter setting.