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Date of Patent:
Dec. 21, 2021

Filed:

Dec. 06, 2017
Applicant:

Sony Corporation, Tokyo, JP;

Inventor:

Satoshi Takahashi, Kanagawa, JP;

Assignee:

SONY CORPORATION, Tokyo, JP;

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 8/24 (2009.01); H04W 4/08 (2009.01); H04W 8/00 (2009.01); H04W 84/10 (2009.01); H04W 84/20 (2009.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 8/24 (2013.01); H04W 4/08 (2013.01); H04W 8/005 (2013.01); H04W 84/10 (2013.01); H04W 84/20 (2013.01);
Abstract

To enable quick execution of pairing among devices with saving user's effort when grouping three or more communication devices. Group list information indicating a device selected as a device capable of wireless communication and as a device capable of corresponding to a group that performs communication is generated or acquired. For example, a master device generates the group list information and a slave device receives and acquires the group list information. Then, pairing processing of setting a own device and a communication device indicated in the group list information to be wireless communication targets to each other is performed by reference to the group list information.


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