Patent ID: 7937748

Claim:
A communication apparatus, comprising: a storage device to store security associations that are time-limited parameters regarding an IPsec secure communication, the security associations being exchanged between an opposite party's communication apparatus, and being effective during prescribed lifetimes; an adjustment device configured to update the security associations stored in the storage device before starting a sleep mode for a power-saving operation, and to adjust the lifetimes for the updated security associations so that a longer time period is added to the lifetimes when it is determined based on a log of previous communications that the communication apparatus is rarely used, wherein the adjusted lifetimes for the updated security associations enable the communication apparatus to start communication immediately after a wake-up in the sleep mode; and a notification device configured to notify the lifetimes, adjusted by the adjustment device, to the opposite party's communication apparatus to stop a transmission of a packet for communication management for a fixed time period in the opposite party's communication apparatus, the packet including a dead peer detection (DPD) packet.