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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 28, 2021
Filed:
Nov. 11, 2016
Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Hitoshi Aoki, Kawasaki, JP;
CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A communication apparatus, in a Neighbor Awareness Networking (NAN) Discovery Window (DW), performs a first communication with another communication apparatus that belongs to an NAN cluster to which the communication apparatus belongs, and performs a second communication with another communication apparatus belonging to the NAN cluster in a period other than the DW. When the communication apparatus has determined a schedule for communicating with a first other communication apparatus, in a case of the second communication with a second other communication apparatus different to the first other communication apparatus, the communication apparatus determines a schedule for communicating with the second other communication apparatus so that a period for the second communication with the first other communication apparatus and a period for the second communication with the second other communication apparatus at least partially overlap.