Communication terminal, computer-readable storage medium, and communication method

• US 10,123,369 B2
• Filed: 12/21/2015
• Issued: 11/06/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 04/04/2008
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha (Canon Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha (Canon Inc.)
• Inventors: Aoki, Norihito
• Primary Examiner(s): Ly, Anh Vu H
• Application Number:
  US14/976,279
• Publication Number:
  US 20160119965A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,051 Days
• Field of Search: None
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 12/00 Accessing, addressing or allocating within memory systems or architectures digital input from, or digital output to record carriers, e.g. to disk storage units, G06F3/06
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 13/38 Information transfer, e.g. on bus G06F13/14 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G06K 7/10198 setting parameters for the interrogator, e.g. programming parameters and operating modes
• CPC Class Codes: G06K 7/10297 arrangements for handling protocols designed for non-contact record carriers such as RFIDs NFCs, e.g. ISO/IEC 14443 and 18092 cryptographic protocols H04L9/00; network security protocols H04L63/00; real-time communication protocols in data switching networks H04L65/00; network protocols for data switching network services H04L67/00
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 1/59 Responders; Transponders
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 72/04 Wireless resource allocation
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 76/14 Direct-mode setup
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 88/06 adapted for operation in multiple networks or having at least two operational modes, e.g. multi-mode terminals

Abstract

A communication terminal includes a first communication unit which has a power supply function by electromagnetic induction and writes or reads information in an active or passive mode, and a second communication unit having a communication capability higher than that of the first communication unit. A mode in which the first communication unit is functioning, the active mode or the passive mode, is determined. Communication via the second communication unit is controlled based on the determination result.

Claims

1. A communication apparatus, comprising:

a first communicator that wirelessly connects to another communication apparatus using a first communication method by operating in a first mode or a second mode, wherein the first mode performs writing processing to the another communication apparatus or reading processing from the another communication apparatus using power supplied from the communication apparatus, and wherein the second mode performs writing processing to the another communication apparatus or reading processing from the another communication apparatus using power supplied from the another communication apparatus;

a second communicator that communicates with the another communication apparatus using a second communication method by operating as a first role or a second role, wherein the first role is a role of controlling the another communication apparatus, and wherein the second role is a role of being controlled by the another communication apparatus; and

one or more computers that is connected with the first communicator via a communication line and cause the communication apparatus to;

determine, in a case where the first communicator wirelessly connects to the another communication apparatus, whether the second communicator operates as the first role or the second role based on an output from the first communicator.

2. The communication apparatus according to claim 1, wherein whether the second communicator operates as the first role or the second role is determined based on the output result indicating that the first communicator operates as the first mode or the second mode.

3. The communication apparatus according to claim 1, wherein it is determined that the second communicator operates as the first role in a case where the output result indicates first information and it is determined that the second communicator operates as the second role in a case where the output result indicates second information different from the first information.

4. The communication apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the first communicator wirelessly connects to the another communication apparatus using Radio Frequency Identification.

5. The communication apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the second communicator communicates with the another communication apparatus using Universal Serial Bus On The Go.

6. The communication apparatus, according to claim 1, wherein the first role is a role as a host and wherein the second role is a role as a device defined by Universal Serial Bus On The Go.

7. The communication apparatus, according to claim 3, wherein a signal level of the output result indicating the first information differs from a signal level of the output result indicating the second information.

8. The communication apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the communication apparatus activates the second communicator in response to connection to the another communication apparatus by the first communicator.

9. A control method in a communication apparatus which comprises a first communicator that wirelessly connects to another communication apparatus using a first communication method by operating in a first mode or a second mode, wherein the first mode is for performing writing processing to the another communication apparatus or reading processing from the another communication apparatus using power supplied from the communication apparatus, and wherein the second mode is for performing writing processing to the another communication apparatus or reading processing from the another communication apparatus using power supplied from the another communication apparatus, a second communicator that communicates with the another communication apparatus using a second communication method by operating as a first role or a second role, wherein the first role is a role of controlling the another communication apparatus, and wherein the second role is a role of being controlled by the another communication apparatus, and one or more computers that is connected with the first communicator via a communication line, the method comprising:

determining, in a case where the first communicator wirelessly connects to the another communication apparatus, whether the second communicator operates as the first role or the second role based on an output from the first communicator.

10. A non-transitory computer readable storage medium storing a computer program that, when executed, causes a computer to perform a method, the computer being incorporated in a communication apparatus which comprises a first communicator that wirelessly connects to another communication apparatus using a first communication method by operating in a first mode or a second mode, wherein the first mode is for performing writing processing to the another communication apparatus or reading processing from the another communication apparatus using power supplied from the communication apparatus, and wherein the second mode is for performing writing processing to the another communication apparatus or reading processing from the another communication apparatus using power supplied from the another communication apparatus, a second communicator that communicates with the another communication apparatus using a second communication method by operating as a first role or a second role, wherein the first role is a role of controlling the another communication apparatus, and wherein the second role is a role of being controlled by the another communication apparatus, and one or more computers that is connected with the first communicator via a communication line, the method comprising:

determining, in a case where the first communicator wirelessly connects to the another communication apparatus, whether the second communicator operates as the first role or the second role based on an output from the first communicator.