COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, TERMINAL, COMMUNICATION METHOD, AND COMMUNICATION PROCESSING PROGRAM
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Abstract
When a terminal that is going to perform communication is newly connected, a host terminal in a communication system determines whether a connection sequence can be performed while a time slot assigned to a terminal group or not. When this determination is not mete avoiding use of the time slot enables preventing a communication period of information that should be basically transmitted by using the time slot from being hardly assured and avoiding degradation in communication quality.
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34 Claims
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18. A communication system comprising:
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a terminal group having a plurality of terminals including one first terminal and at least one second terminal, a predetermined communication path occupancy required to perform communication between desired terminals included in said terminal group being assigned; and said first terminal including a first determining unit that determines whether execution of communication for initial setting required for a new second terminal to communicate with said other terminals is possible or not while said communication path occupancy assigned to said terminal group yet in the case that said new second terminal is connected. - View Dependent Claims (19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31)
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32. A terminal provided in a communication system, said communication system including a terminal group having a plurality of terminals, a predetermined communication path occupancy required to perform communication between desired terminals included in said terminal group being assigned, said terminal comprising:
a determining unit that determines whether execution of communication for initial setting required for a new terminal to communicate with other terminals is possible or not while said communication path occupancy assigned to said terminal group yet in the case that said new terminal is connected.
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33. A communication method by which a terminal group including a plurality of terminals occupies communication path occupancy and desired terminals in said terminal group communicate with each other, said communication method comprising steps of:
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a step that determines whether execution of communication for initial setting required for a new terminal to communicate with other terminals is possible or not while said communication path occupancy in the case that said new terminal is connected to perform communication; and a step that performs said communication for initial setting in a period other than said communication path occupancy when said determination is not met.
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34. A communication processing program allowing a computing unit to execute steps, said computing unit being provided in a terminal., a plurality of said terminals forming a terminal group, communication between desired terminals included in said terminal group being performed by using a predetermined communication path occupancy, said steps comprising:
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a step that determines whether execution of communication for initial setting required for a terminal newly connected to communicate with other terminals is possible or not while said communication path occupancy; and a step for informing the newly connected terminal of executing said communication for initial setting in a period other than said communication path occupancy, when said determination is not met.
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