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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 17, 2026
Filed:
Jan. 17, 2024
Oki Electric Industry Co., Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Masaya Ikeda, Tokyo, JP;
Oki Electric Industry Co., Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A communication apparatus according to one or more embodiments may include: a storage that stores MAC filtering registration information indicating a registered MAC address serving as a MAC address of a communication device which is allowed to perform communication and identification information of the communication device; a communication part configured to receive a communication packet from a network; a MAC filter processor configured to reference the MAC filtering registration information and perform filtering depending on whether or not a source MAC address of the communication packet matches the registered MAC address; and a MAC filter controller configured to use the identification information to update the registered MAC address.