Patent ID: 8553556

Claim:
A communication apparatus, comprising: a central processing unit; a processing unit configured to execute, in response to a user instruction, communication-parameter sharing processing for providing a communication parameter to a receiving apparatus from a providing apparatus; a determining unit configured to determine whether there exists another apparatus that, in response to the user instruction, has executed the communication-parameter sharing processing, in a case where the communication apparatus is executing the communication-parameter sharing processing as the providing apparatus; and a notification unit configured to send, in a case where the communication apparatus is executing the communication-parameter sharing processing as the providing apparatus and there are plural other apparatuses that are executing the communication-parameter sharing processing as a result of determination by the determining unit, a notification to cancel executing the communication-parameter sharing processing directly to a first apparatus that is executing the communication-parameter sharing processing as a receiving apparatus, wherein at least one of the processing unit, the determining unit, and the notification unit is implemented by the central processing unit.