US 12,262,444 B2
Communication apparatus for data transmission in a neighbor aware network (NAN), control method, and computer-readable storage medium
Yuki Yoshikawa, Kawasaki (JP)
Assigned to CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Tokyo (JP)
Filed by CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Tokyo (JP)
Filed on Jun. 9, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/836,284.
Application 17/836,284 is a continuation of application No. 15/995,573, filed on Jun. 1, 2018, granted, now 11,388,773.
Application 15/995,573 is a continuation of application No. PCT/JP2016/080821, filed on Oct. 18, 2016.
Claims priority of application No. 2015-236995 (JP), filed on Dec. 3, 2015.
Prior Publication US 2022/0304105 A1, Sep. 22, 2022
Int. Cl. H04W 76/30 (2018.01); H04W 8/00 (2009.01); H04W 52/02 (2009.01); H04W 76/15 (2018.01); H04W 84/12 (2009.01); H04W 84/18 (2009.01)
CPC H04W 76/30 (2018.02) [H04W 8/00 (2013.01); H04W 52/0216 (2013.01); H04W 52/028 (2013.01); H04W 76/15 (2018.02); H04W 84/12 (2013.01); H04W 84/18 (2013.01); Y02D 30/70 (2020.08)] 15 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A communication apparatus comprising:
one or more processors; and
one or more memories that store a computer-readable instruction for causing, when executed by the one or more processors, the communication apparatus to:
notify a request for communication related to a service compliant with a Neighbor Awareness Network (NAN) standard by transmitting, to another communication apparatus belonging to a NAN cluster, a first signal;
perform the communication compliant with the NAN standard with the other communication apparatus in a period that is compliant with the NAN standard and is different from a Discovery Window (DW); and
notify termination of the communication by transmitting to the other communication apparatus a second signal,
wherein the first signal and the second signal have a predetermined frame format compliant with the NAN standard,
wherein the first signal is a signal in which type information included in the predetermined frame format is set to a first value indicating a request for the communication, and
wherein the second signal is a signal in which the type information included in the predetermined frame format is set to a second value indicating termination of the communication,
wherein in a case where the communication apparatus transmits, in a state in which a first link related to a first service and a second link related to a second service are already established with the other communication apparatus, the second signal indicating termination of the first link related to the first service to the other communication apparatus, the communication apparatus terminates the first link related to the first service, but does not terminate the second link related to the second service.