Patent ID: 7630692

Claim:
An information processing apparatus for setting a transmission mode based on a mode request message transmitted from a communication apparatus and for requesting the setting of the transmission mode that is predetermined by the communication apparatus as a suitable transmission mode for the communication apparatus, the information processing apparatus comprising: mode request message acquisition means for acquiring the mode request message to be transmitted from the communication apparatus at a first interval; power control information acquisition means for acquiring a power control information for requesting transmission power adjustment to be transmitted from the communication apparatus at a second interval shorter than the first interval; and transmission mode setting means for setting the transmission mode to the communication apparatus based on both the mode request message and power control information, wherein the transmission mode is set based on a numerical indicator that is calculated by adding a first numerical indicator generated based on the mode request message and a second numerical indicator generated based on the power control information, a zero weight being assigned to the second numerical indicator when the second numerical indicator is less than a predetermined threshold value, and wherein the power control information is transmitted without being coded.