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Date of Patent:
May. 11, 2021

Filed:

Apr. 17, 2019
Applicant:

Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;

Inventor:

Tomohiro Akiba, Tokyo, JP;

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 60/04 (2009.01); H04W 76/18 (2018.01); H04W 76/30 (2018.01); H04W 12/06 (2021.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 60/04 (2013.01); H04W 12/06 (2013.01); H04W 76/18 (2018.02); H04W 76/30 (2018.02);
Abstract

A communication apparatus comprises a registration unit that registers an external communication apparatus in response to a registration request from the external communication apparatus, an authentication unit that performs an authentication process for the external communication apparatus registered by the registration unit, and a transition unit that transit the communication apparatus into a registration release mode in a case that the authentication process of the authentication unit has not succeeded, wherein the registration release mode is a mode for receiving a registration release request from the external communication apparatus.


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