Communication apparatus, control method for communication apparatus, communication system, and program

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9344152-B2
Application number	US-201314375848-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jan 17, 2013
Priority date	Jan 31, 2012
Publication date	May 17, 2016
Grant date	May 17, 2016

Abstract

A communication apparatus includes a communication unit configured to communicate in a first communication mode in which a memory of the communication apparatus is accessed by another communication apparatus, a detection unit configured to detect an access from the another communication apparatus to the memory of the communication apparatus, and a shift unit configured to shift an operation mode of the communication apparatus in response to a condition including at least the access to the memory detected by the detection unit.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A communication apparatus comprising:
a communication unit configured to communicate in a card emulation mode defined by Near Field Communication (NFC), which is a mode in which a memory of the communication apparatus is accessed by a second communication apparatus that is set in a reader/writer mode defined by NFC;
a detection unit configured to detect an access from the second communication apparatus to the memory; and
a shift unit configured to…

Assignees

• Canon Kk

Inventors

• Hamada Masashi

Classifications

• H04B5/24

  Electricity · mapped topic

• G06F1/3225

  Physics · mapped topic

• H04B1/401

  Electricity · mapped topic

• Y02B60/1282

  Cross-Sectional Technologies · mapped topic

• H04W52/0209

  Electricity · mapped topic