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Date of Patent:
Aug. 14, 2018

Filed:

Jul. 12, 2016
Applicant:

Makoto Torikoshi, Kanagawa, JP;

Inventor:

Makoto Torikoshi, Kanagawa, JP;

Assignee:

Ricoh Company, Ltd., Tokyo, JP;

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 52/02 (2009.01); H04L 29/06 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 52/02 (2013.01); H04L 69/16 (2013.01); Y02D 30/30 (2018.01); Y02D 70/00 (2018.01);
Abstract

A communication apparatus includes: a transceiver configured to receive a receive window size for use in communication with at least one communication destination communication apparatus from the at least one communication destination communication apparatus; a power-mode determining unit configured to determine a power mode to which transition is to be made, based on the receive window size received by the transceiver; a protocol stack unit configured to request the power-mode determining unit to determine the power mode at a time after transmitting and receiving data to and from the at least one communication destination communication apparatus; and a power-mode control unit configured to control electric power in accordance with the power mode determined by the power-mode determining unit.


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