Sony Corporation

Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications Japan, Inc.

Oki Electric Industry Co., Ltd.

Sony Group Corporation

Sony Mobile Communications Inc.

Katsutoshi Itoh

Hideyuki Suzuki

Masahiko Naito

Masanori Sato

Takeshi Itagaki

Osamu Yoshimura

Tomoya Yamaura

Shinji Takae

Daisuke Kawakami

Erika Saito

Makoto Natori

Mitsuyoshi Yasuda

Minoru Yokoshi

Yoshihiko Ikenaga

Natsuki Itaya

Hideki Iwami

Tadashi Ehara

Katsuhito Ishida

Junya Ohde

Noboru Oki

Taku Nagase

Shigenori Uchida

Tomoaki Matsumura

Tatsuya Igarashi

Hiroyuki Suzuki

Norifumi Kikkawa

Eisuke Sakai

Kenichiro Hosoda

Kimiya Kato

Katsumi Tokuyama

Hiroaki Nagaoka

Erika Tanimoto

Noburu Oki

Masonori Sato

Provided is a wireless communication device including a reception controller that controls reception of a plurality of data frames provided by another device through repeated transmission, the plurality of data frames including the same data. The wireless communication device further includes a transmission controller that controls transmission of a confirmation response signal to the other device on a per-data frame basis, on a per-repeated transmission basis, or both.

Wireless communication device, wireless communication method, and wireless communication system

Provided is a wireless communication apparatus including an application, a communication control unit for controlling a search process for discovering at least one peripheral wireless communication apparatus and a connection process to a peripheral wireless communication apparatus, and a display control unit for generating a display screen including display of the at least one peripheral wireless communication apparatus discovered by the search process. The communication control unit starts control of the search process by start of the application, and controls the connection process to a wireless communication apparatus selected on the display screen.

Wireless communication apparatus, wireless communication method, and wireless communication system

There is provided a radio communication device including a reception unit which receives information indicating a connection state or a communication capability of another radio communication device which the radio communication device attempts to connect to, and a selection unit which selects, depending on the information received by the reception unit, which communication is to be performed from among first communication in which a direct connection to such other radio communication device is established and direct communication with such other radio communication device is performed, second communication in which a connection to such other radio communication device via a base station is established and direct communication with such other radio communication device is performed, and third communication in which a connection to such other radio communication device via the base station is established and indirect communication with such other radio communication device via the base station is performed.

Radio communication device, radio communication system, radio communication method, and program

Provided is a communication device including a contactless communication unit that conducts contactless communication, a wireless communication unit that conducts wireless communication, and a control unit that, in a case in which the contactless communication unit detects another communication device, controls activation start of a first communication mode of the wireless communication unit, and controls a connection process for the wireless communication between the contactless communication unit and the other communication device.

Communication device, communication method, program, and communication system

Provided is a wireless communication device which includes a function information transmitting unit for transmitting, via a wireless communication network, function information relating to a function of the wireless communication device, a function information receiving unit for receiving function information transmitted from another device, a function information comparison unit for comparing the function information of the wireless communication device and the function information received from such other device, and a function determination unit for determining which of the wireless communication device and such other device is to play a function of an access point, based on a result of the comparison by the function information comparison unit.

Wireless communication device, wireless communication system, wireless communication method and program

A control apparatus transmits a confirmation request to confirm whether a direct communication is possible to each terminal as a target of the direct communication. Each terminal confirms whether the direct communication is possible and transmits the confirmation result to the control apparatus. The control apparatus judges whether the direct communication is possible based on the confirmation result transmitted from the terminal and when judging as possible, transmits a switch request for the direct communication to the terminal side. Consequently, a situation where a communication cannot actually be established when switching to the direct communication can be avoided.

Control apparatus and communication terminal

[Object] To provide a wireless communication apparatus, a wireless communication method, and a program being novel and improved by which connection to a network can be made more easily. [Solution] A wireless communication apparatus including: a first wireless communication unit configured to connect to a first network to perform wireless communication; and a control unit configured to assist connection, to a second network corresponding to a connection destination selection policy of another wireless communication apparatus received by the first wireless communication unit, by a wireless terminal related to the other wireless communication apparatus.

Wireless communication apparatus and wireless communication method for connection to a wireless network

There is provided a communication device including an obtaining unit configured to obtain first state information representing a state of a first wireless communication device regarding a direct connection between devices via wireless communication and second state information representing a state of a second wireless communication device regarding the direct connection, and a control unit configured to establish a connection between the first wireless communication device and the second wireless communication device via the wireless communication on the basis of the first state information and the second state information. At least one of the first state information and the second state information is obtained via near-field communication.

Communication device, communication control method, and program

Appropriate control is performed when communication is performed between a plurality of information processing devices. An information processing device performs real-time image transmission with another information processing device according to a Wi-Fi CERTIFIED Miracast specification. The information processing device includes a control unit. The control unit performs control such that setting request information for performing a setting related to the real-time image transmission is received from the other information processing device via an access point. The control unit performs control such that a setting request for performing the setting based on the setting request information is transmitted to the other information processing device through direct communication.

Information processing device, information processing system, and information processing method

There is provided a wireless communication device including a control-message creation/transmission-instruction unit which sends notification information via a wireless communication network and also sends response information in the case of receiving notification information sent from another device, a reception/interpretation processing unit which receives, from another device which has received the notification information of the wireless communication device, response information of such other device and also receives the notification information sent from such other device, and an operation mode determination unit which determines, based on operation mode determination information included in the notification information of such other device or the response information of such other device, that the wireless communication device is caused to operate as one of a master device and a slave device.

Wireless communication device, wireless communication system, wireless communication method, and program

[Object] To provide a communication apparatus and a communication method, which are capable of improving the communication efficiency while preventing collision of responses in communication of responses to frames transmitted to a plurality of communication apparatuses. [Solution] Provided is a communication apparatus, including: a processing unit configured to generate a frame indicating designation information designating a transmission process for multiplexing differing for each of a plurality of other communication apparatuses; and a communication unit configured to transmit the frame generated by the processing unit to the plurality of other communication apparatuses. Also provided is a communication apparatus, including: a processing unit configured to perform a reception process of receiving a frame from another communication apparatus, and process a response to the frame in accordance with a transmission process indicated from the other communication apparatus, the transmission process differing for each of a plurality of communication apparatuses.

Communication apparatus and communication method

Provided is an information processing apparatus including a receiving unit that receives an execution request to cause a wireless communication apparatus to execute a specific function by using a connection right to connect to a predetermined network using wireless communication. The connection right is set to a first wireless communication apparatus not including the specific function when the execution request is received, and when the connection right is not set to a second wireless communication apparatus including the specific function, the connection right is made to be set to the second wireless communication apparatus to cause the second wireless communication apparatus to execute the specific function in accordance with the execution request.

Apparatus, system and method for network connection right management

Appropriate data communication is realized. A wireless communication device includes a communication unit and a control unit. The communication unit included in the device performs data transmission to a different device via one of frequency channels classified into a plurality of groups that includes a first group and a second group. On the other hand, the control unit detects a reference signal transmitted from the different device via one of the frequency channels belonging to the first group. The control unit further selects one of the frequency channels for the data transmission from the first group or the second group on the basis of a result of detection of the reference signal.

Wireless communication device, communication system, and information processing method

Provided is a wireless communication device which includes a notification information transmitting unit for transmitting, via a wireless communication network, notification information of the wireless communication device, a notification information receiving unit for receiving notification information transmitted from another device, a frequency switching unit for successively switching, at random cycles, a frequency at which the notification information is transmitted or a frequency at which the notification information is received, and a transmission processing unit for performing a data transmission process after transmitting or receiving an acknowledgement to the notification information to/from such other device.

Provided is an information processing apparatus including a determination unit which determines whether a first wireless communication apparatus for which a connection right to connect to a predetermined network using wireless communication has not been set satisfies a predetermined condition for connecting to the network and performing predetermined communication processing. When the predetermined condition is satisfied, the first wireless communication apparatus performs the communication processing using the connection right set for the first wireless communication apparatus through transfer of the connection right from a second wireless communication apparatus for which the connection right has been set to the first wireless communication apparatus.

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Tokyo, Japan

Katsutoshi Itoh