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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 10, 2010
Filed:
Oct. 19, 2007
Akiko Tobe, Yokosuka, JP;
Masayuki Tsuda, Tokyo, JP;
Akiko Tobe, Yokosuka, JP;
Masayuki Tsuda, Tokyo, JP;
NTT DoCoMo, Inc., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
When a native application and a downloaded application installed on a mobile equipment are simultaneously executed by multitask and when these applications try to use short-range wireless communication simultaneously, the short-range wireless communication may be unavailable because of restrictions on communication resources. An object of the invention is to provide a wireless communication apparatus and wireless communication method capable of performing communication management to permit the applications to use the short-range wireless communication, without a need for a complicated operation of especially terminating an application to release a communication resource in the foregoing case. A communication profile storagestores combinations of communication profiles which can be simultaneously executed. A short-range wireless communication management unitdetermines whether a communication process according to an instruction from an external applicationcan be executed, based on the communication profiles. When the short-range wireless communication process is determined not to be executed, a disconnection unitnotifies the external applicationof unavailability of the communication.