Communication parameter setting method, communicating apparatus, and managing apparatus for managing communication parameters

• US 10,143,024 B2
• Filed: 03/17/2016
• Issued: 11/27/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 10/20/2006
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha (Canon Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha (Canon Inc.)
• Inventors: Shichino, Takahiro
• Primary Examiner(s): Mattis, Jason E
• Application Number:
  US15/073,425
• Publication Number:
  US 20160205563A1
• Time in Patent Office: 985 Days
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/082 the condition being updates or upgrades of network functionality
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/0873 Checking configuration conflicts between network elements
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 16/18 Network planning tools
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 24/00 Supervisory, monitoring or testing arrangements
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 28/18 Negotiating wireless communication parameters
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 68/00 User notification, e.g. alerting and paging, for incoming communication, change of service or the like
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 76/14 Direct-mode setup
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 8/245 from a network towards a terminal

Abstract

When a plurality of managing apparatuses which manage communication parameters exists, there is a case where the wrong communication parameters are set into a communicating apparatus. When the communication parameters are set between the managing apparatus which manages the communication parameters and the communicating apparatus, if a plurality of managing apparatuses in a setting state of the communication parameters into the communicating apparatus is detected, the managing apparatus in the setting state is notified that the plurality of managing apparatuses in the setting state exists. Whether or not the setting of the communication parameters is continued is discriminated, thereby continuing or stopping the setting of the communication parameters.

Claims

1. A communicating apparatus comprising:

an executing device that executes, in response to a user operation, a process of wirelessly transmitting wireless communication parameters from a management apparatus to a receiving apparatus, the wireless communication parameters comprising at least one of a SSID (Service Set Identifier), an encrypting system, a key and an authenticating system, wherein the communicating apparatus operates as the management apparatus in the process;

a detecting device that detects one or more other communicating apparatuses that are executing the process, based on information received via a wireless communication; and

a sending device that wirelessly sends information indicating that multiple sessions of the process are detected to a terminal apparatus that operates as the receiving apparatus, in a case where the detecting device detects a plurality of other communicating apparatuses that are executing the process while the executing device is executing the process,

wherein the information sent by the sending device causes the terminal apparatus to stop the process.

2. The communicating apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising a stopping device that stops the process being executed by the executing device after the sending device sends the information.

3. The communicating apparatus according to claim 1, wherein, in a case where the detecting device detects that a single other communicating apparatus is executing the process, the communicating apparatus transmits the wireless communication parameters to the terminal apparatus.

4. The communicating apparatus according to claim 1, wherein, in a case where the detecting device detects that none of the other communicating apparatuses are executing the process, the executing device stops the process without sending the information.

5. The communicating apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the sending device sends, via a base station, the information to the terminal apparatus.

6. The communicating apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the sending device sends, via a wireless communication that supports IEEE 802.11, the information to the terminal apparatus.

7. The communicating apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the executing device executes the process in response to a detection of actuation of a setting button.

8. The communicating apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the detecting device performs the detection based on scan processing for detecting an apparatus that is executing the process.

9. The communicating apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the detecting device detects a base station that is executing the process.

10. The communicating apparatus according to claim 6, wherein the detecting device detects another communicating apparatus that is executing the process in response to reception of information, from the another communicating apparatus, indicating that the another apparatus is executing the process.

11. The communicating apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the executing device transmits the wireless communication parameters to the receiving apparatus via a base station.

12. The communicating apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the key is an encryption key or an authentication key.

13. A method of executing a process of wirelessly transmitting wireless communication parameters from a management apparatus to a receiving apparatus, the wireless communication parameters comprising at least one of a SSID (Service Set Identifier), an encrypting system, a key and an authenticating system, the method comprising:

executing the process in response to a user operation;

detecting, at a first communicating apparatus that operates as the management apparatus, one or more other communicating apparatuses that are executing the process, based on information received via wireless communication; and

wirelessly sending, at the first communicating apparatus, information indicating that multiple sessions of the process are detected to a second communicating apparatus that operates as the receiving apparatus in the process, in a case where the detecting detects a plurality of other communicating apparatuses that are executing the process while the executing is executing the process,

wherein the information causes the terminal apparatus to stop the process.

14. A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing a computer program for causing a computer to execute a method of executing a process of wirelessly transmitting wireless communication parameters from a management apparatus to a receiving apparatus, the wireless communication parameters comprising at least one of a SSID (Service Set Identifier), an encrypting system, a key and an authenticating system, the program comprising code for performing:

executing the process in response to a user operation;

detecting, at a first communicating apparatus that operates as the management apparatus, one or more other communicating apparatuses that are executing the process, based on information received via wireless communication; and

wirelessly sending, at the first communicating apparatus, information indicating that multiple sessions of the process are detected wirelessly to a second communicating apparatus that operates as the receiving apparatus in the process, in a case where the detecting detects a plurality of other communicating apparatuses that are executing the process while the executing is executing the process,

wherein the information causes the terminal apparatus to stop the process.