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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 01, 2020
Filed:
Nov. 06, 2018
Applicant:
Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Inventor:
Toshiyuki Nakagawa, Kawasaki, JP;
Assignee:
Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 84/12 (2009.01); H04W 8/00 (2009.01); H04W 76/14 (2018.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 8/005 (2013.01); H04W 76/14 (2018.02); H04W 84/12 (2013.01);
Abstract
A communication apparatus searches for another communication apparatus using either a method with which to perform direct wireless communication or a method for specifying a service via an apparatus for constructing a wireless network, and in a case where another communication apparatus is using one of the methods and the detected another communication apparatus satisfies a predetermined condition, the communication apparatus does not perform a search using the other method.