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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 13, 2021
Filed:
Feb. 04, 2019
Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Hideaki Ohshima, Kawasaki, JP;
CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
An electronic device that is capable of using a plurality of wireless communication units and communicates wirelessly with an external device using one of the plurality of wireless communication units, is disclosed. The device comprises a storage device that stores one or more sets of settings used in past wireless communication with one or more external device, the settings being stored separately as settings pertaining to a network used in the wireless communication and settings pertaining to communication with an external device over the network. The device also extracts a set of settings that can be used from the one or more sets of settings stored in the storage device, in accordance with a combination of a type of an external device with which wireless communication to be performed and a wireless communication unit to be used for the wireless communication.