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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 24, 2020
Filed:
Jun. 22, 2018
Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Hitoshi Aoki, Kawasaki, JP;
CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A communication apparatus receives a first acquisition request, which is a request for acquiring apparatus information relating to another communication apparatus that exists in a NAN (Neighbor Awareness Networking) cluster, from a first other communication apparatus, transmits, in a case where the first acquisition request is received, a second acquisition request that corresponds to the first acquisition request to the cluster, and awaits reception of signals from a plurality of other communication apparatuses in response to the transmitted second acquisition request, for a predetermined period. In addition, a signal is transmitted which includes pieces of apparatus information of the plurality of other communication apparatuses that are included in the signals received from the plurality of other communication apparatuses collectively to the first other communication apparatus.