Patent ID: 8335548

Claim:
A communication apparatus, comprising: a determination device configured to determine whether a remaining capacity of a battery is less than a predetermined capacity; a requesting device configured to, in a case where the communication apparatus is operating as a control station of a network, request each other communication apparatus participating in the network to transmit a power supply status in a case where the determination device determines that the remaining capacity of the battery is less than the predetermined capacity; a recognition device configured to recognize, from a power supply status, a type of power supply for each other communication apparatus participating in the network from received power supply statuses; and a handover device configured to execute processing for handing over operation of the control station to another communication apparatus participating in the network in a case where the recognition device recognizes the type of power supply of the another communication apparatus as a commercial power supply, wherein the recognition device recognizes the type of power supply of the another communication apparatus as a battery power supply before the determination device determines that the remaining capacity of the battery of the communication apparatus is less than the predetermined capacity and subsequently recognizes the type of power supply of the another communication apparatus as a commercial power supply after the determination device determines that the remaining capacity of the battery of the communication apparatus is less than the predetermined capacity.