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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 23, 2019
Filed:
Jan. 11, 2018
Applicant:
Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Inventor:
Yuki Narita, Abiko, JP;
Assignee:
CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 3/12 (2006.01); H04N 1/44 (2006.01); G06F 21/60 (2013.01); G06F 21/31 (2013.01); H04N 1/00 (2006.01); H04W 48/04 (2009.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 3/1236 (2013.01); G06F 3/1286 (2013.01); G06F 21/31 (2013.01); G06F 21/608 (2013.01); H04N 1/00411 (2013.01); H04N 1/4433 (2013.01); G06F 3/1203 (2013.01); H04N 2201/0048 (2013.01); H04N 2201/0094 (2013.01); H04W 48/04 (2013.01);
Abstract
An MFP (image processing apparatus) activates a specific AP by a software AP mode for using a setting service that allows an external apparatus to perform network setting to cause the MFP to connect to a network by the software AP mode. If the MFP receives, from a mobile terminal via a WLAN I/F, a connection request to the activated specific AP, the MFP executes processing to limit the number of external apparatuses (mobile terminals) that can connect to the specific AP to use a WLAN setting service. The MFP limits, for example, the number of the external apparatuses that can connect to the specific AP to one.