Communication apparatus, program, communication method and communication system

• US 8,644,761 B2
• Filed: 01/03/2013
• Issued: 02/04/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 07/29/2008
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Inventors: Iwasaki, Jun
• Primary Examiner(s): Hsieh, Ping Y
• Assistant Examiner(s): Hanidu, Ganiyu A
• Application Number:
  US13/733,514
• Publication Number:
  US 20130122808A1
• Time in Patent Office: 397 Days
• Field of Search: 455/466, 455/456.1, 455/422.1, 455/418, 455/41.2, 455/41.1, 455/424, 455/63.4, 455/25, 455/158.5, 455/403, 705/14.4, 705/14.49, 705/14.41, 705/14.72, 386/96, 386/113, 386/114, 386/47, 386/49, 386/2, 386/21, 386/22, 386/95, 386/39, 386/115
• US Class Current: 455/41.1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 21/121 Restricting unauthorised execution of programs
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0614 Improving the reliability of storage systems
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 5/24 Inductive coupling
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 5/48 Transceivers
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 5/72 for local intradevice communication
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 7/24 for communication between two or more posts wireless communication networks H04W

Abstract

A communication apparatus including a first storage unit, a second storage unit logically or physically discriminated from the first storage unit, a first communication unit, a second communication unit for transmitting data stored in the second storage unit through electric field coupling or magnetic field coupling, and a selecting unit for selecting at least either the first storage unit or the second storage unit as a storage destination of the data received by the first communication unit.

Claims

1. A communication apparatus comprising:

a first memory provided in the communication apparatus;

a second memory provided in the communication apparatus that is logically or physically discriminated from the first memory;

a first transmitter/receiver to receive data;

a second transmitter/receiver to transmit data stored in the second memory through electric field coupling or magnetic field coupling; and

a processor to select at least either the first memory or the second memory as a storage destination of the data received by the first transmitter/receiver.

2. The communication apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the processor is to select the storage destination of the data based on additional information of the data received by the first transmitter/receiver.

3. The communication apparatus according to claim 2, wherein when information indicating a partial range of the data is included in the additional information of the data received by the first communication unit, the processor is to select the second memory as the storage destination of the partial range of the data and is to select the first memory as the storage destination of all of the data.

4. The communication apparatus according to claim 3, wherein the data stored in the first memory is restricted from being transmitted by the second transmitter/receiver.

8. The communication apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the communication apparatus is a cellular phone.

9. The communication apparatus according to claim 8, wherein the first and second memories are logically discriminated portions of a common non-volatile memory of the cellular phone.

5. A communication method comprising:

receiving, by a communication apparatus, first data in an arbitrary communication method;

selecting at least either a first memory or a second memory that is logically or physically discriminated from the first memory as a storage destination of the data received by the arbitrary communication method, wherein the first and second memories are provided in the communication apparatus;

storing the data in the storage destination selected by the selecting; and

transmitting data stored in the second memory through electric field coupling or magnetic field coupling.

6. A communication system comprising:

a first communication apparatus to communicate through electric field coupling or magnetic field coupling; and

a second communication apparatus including,

a first memory provided in the communication apparatus,

a second memory provided in the communication apparatus that is logically or physically discriminated from the first memory,

a first transmitter/receiver to receive data,

a second transmitter/receiver to transmit data stored in the second memory to the first communication apparatus through the electric field coupling or magnetic field coupling, and

a processor to select at least either the first memory or the second memory as a storage destination of the data received by the first communication unit.

7. A non-transitory medium including executable instructions, which when executed by a processor of a communication apparatus, cause the processor to execute a process comprising:

receiving, by the communication apparatus, first data in an arbitrary communication method;

selecting at least either a first memory or a second memory that is logically or physically discriminated from the first memory as a storage destination of the data received by the arbitrary communication method, wherein the first and second memories are provided in the communication apparatus;

storing the data in the storage destination selected by the selecting; and

transmitting data stored in the second memory through electric field coupling or magnetic field coupling.