Patent ID: 8474020

Claim:
A control method for a communication system comprising a wireless communication apparatus, a base station that performs wireless communication with the wireless communication apparatus and connects to a communication network, and a management apparatus, the method comprising: at the wireless communication apparatus, transmitting a user identifier to the management apparatus; at the management apparatus, generating first code information that is used to authenticate the wireless communication apparatus by the base station, based on authentication information that corresponds to the user identifier transmitted from the wireless communication apparatus and code generation information, and transmitting the generated first code information to the base station; transmitting the code generation information to the wireless communication apparatus; at the wireless communication apparatus, generating second code information based on the code generation information transmitted from the management apparatus; at the base station, authenticating the wireless communication apparatus by checking whether or not the first code information transmitted from the management apparatus and the second code information generated by the wireless communication apparatus match, wherein the authenticating is for determining whether or not a provision of a wireless parameter to the wireless communication apparatus is to be performed; and providing the wireless parameter to the wireless communication apparatus in a case that it is confirmed that the first code information and the code information generated by the wireless communication apparatus match; and at the management apparatus, determining whether or not the provision of the wireless parameter from the base station to the wireless communication apparatus is successful, permitting the wireless communication apparatus to connect to the communication network, in a case that the provision is successful, and prohibiting the wireless communication apparatus to connect to the communication network in a case that the provision is not successful.