Communication Apparatus, Communication System, Communication Method and Program

• US 20090311962A1
• Filed: 06/15/2009
• Published: 12/17/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 06/17/2008
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Inventors: KONYA, Satoshi, IWASAKI, Jun, YAMAGATA, Tomonari, NAMEKAWA, Nobuo, MIYACHI, Hiroaki
• Application Number:
  US12/484,598
• Publication Number:
  US 20090311962A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 455/41.200
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/2757 by data transmission, e.g. downloading
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72412 using two-way short-range wireless interfaces

Abstract

There is provided a communication apparatus including a first communication control unit for controlling a communication in a first communication method, a storage unit in which contact information of other communication apparatus in the first communication method is recorded, and a second communication control unit for controlling a connection establishment communication with a communication party in a second communication method based on electric field coupling or magnetic field coupling and a data communication with the communication party in the second communication method, wherein the second communication control unit does not make the data communication with the communication party when the contact information recorded in the storage unit is not contained in a signal transmitted from the communication party during the connection establishment communication.

Claims

1. A communication apparatus comprising:

a first communication control unit for controlling a communication in a first communication method;

a storage unit in which contact information of other communication apparatus is recorded in the first communication method; and

a second communication control unit for controlling a connection establishment communication with a communication party in a second communication method based on electric field coupling or magnetic field coupling and a data communication with the communication party in the second communication method,

wherein the second communication control unit does not make the data communication with the communication party when the contact information recorded in the storage unit is not contained in a signal transmitted from the communication party during the connection establishment communication.

2. The communication apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising a third communication control unit for controlling a communication in a third communication method different from the first communication method and the second communication method,

wherein contact information of the other communication apparatus in the third communication method is further recorded in the storage unit.

3. The communication apparatus according to claim 2, wherein the second communication control unit makes the data communication with the communication party when at least either the contact information recorded in the storage unit in the first communication method or the contact information in the third communication method is contained in the signal transmitted from the communication party during the connection establishment communication.

4. The communication apparatus according to claim 3, wherein both the contact information in the first communication method and the contact information in the third communication method are contained in the signal transmitted from the communication party during the connection establishment communication.

5. The communication apparatus according to claim 2, wherein identification information indicating a communication method and contact information of the communication party in the communication method indicated by the identification information are contained in the signal transmitted from the communication party during the connection establishment communication.

6. The communication apparatus according to claims 1 to 5, wherein the contact information of the communication party is contained also in a signal transmitted from the communication party during the data communication, and

the storage unit in which the data received from the communication party is recorded during the data communication in association with reception time information and the contact information contained in the signal.

7. The communication apparatus according to claims 1 to 5, wherein the second communication control unit requests the communication party to transmit a signal containing contact information during the connection establishment communication.

8. A communication system comprising:

a first communication apparatus including;

a first communication control unit for controlling a communication in a first communication method;

a storage unit in which contact information of other communication apparatus in the first communication method is recorded; and

a second communication control unit for controlling a connection establishment communication in a second communication method based on electric field coupling or magnetic field coupling and a data communication in the second communication method; and

a second communication apparatus for transmitting a signal containing contact information of the second communication apparatus in the first communication method during the connection establishment communication,

wherein the second communication control unit does not make the data communication with the second communication apparatus when the contact information recorded in the storage unit is not contained in the signal transmitted from the second communication apparatus during the connection establishment communication.

9. A communication method comprising the steps of:

recording contact information of other communication apparatus in a first communication method in a storage medium;

making a connection establishment communication with a communication party in a second communication method based on electric field coupling or magnetic field coupling; and

controlling a data communication with the communication party in the second communication method,

wherein the data communication with the communication party is not made when the contact information recorded in the storage medium is not contained in a signal transmitted from the communication party during the connection establishment communication.

10. A program for causing a computer to function as:

a first communication control unit for controlling a communication in a first communication method;

a recording unit for recording contact information of other communication apparatus in the first communication method in a storage medium; and

a second communication control unit for controlling a connection establishment communication with a communication party in a second communication method based on electric field coupling or magnetic field coupling and a data communication with the communication party in the second communication method so that the data communication with the communication party is not made when the contact information recorded in the storage unit is not contained in a signal transmitted from the communication party during the connection establishment communication.

11. A communication apparatus comprising:

a first communication control unit for controlling a communication in a first communication method; and

a second communication control unit for controlling a connection establishment communication with a communication party in a second communication method based on electric field coupling or magnetic field coupling and a data communication with the communication party in the second communication method,

wherein the second communication control unit transmits a signal containing contact information of the communication apparatus in the first communication method during the connection establishment communication.