COMMUNICATION PARAMETER SETTING METHOD, COMMUNICATING APPARATUS, AND MANAGING APPARATUS FOR MANAGING COMMUNICATION PARAMETERS
When a plurality of managing apparatuses which manage communication parameters exists, there is a case where the wrong communication parameters are set into a communicating apparatus. When the communication parameters are set between the managing apparatus which manages the communication parameters and the communicating apparatus, if a plurality of managing apparatuses in a setting state of the communication parameters into the communicating apparatus is detected, the managing apparatus in the setting state is notified that the plurality of managing apparatuses in the setting state exists. Whether or not the setting of the communication parameters is continued is discriminated, thereby continuing or stopping the setting of the communication parameters.
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9 . A communicating apparatus comprising:
a detecting device that detects a managing apparatus that is operating in a setting mode for providing wireless communication parameters, wherein the wireless communication parameters comprise at least one of an encrypting system, an encryption key, an authenticating system and an authentication key; and
a notifying device that, if the detecting device detects a plurality of managing apparatuses operating in the setting mode for providing wireless communication parameters while the communication apparatus is operating in a setting mode for receiving the wireless communication parameters from the managing apparatus, notifies the managing apparatuses operating in the setting mode that the plurality of managing apparatuses operating in the setting mode exists.
10 . A communicating apparatus according to claim 9 , wherein the detecting device performs the detection based on a signal transmitted from a base station serving as a management target of the managing apparatus operating in the setting mode.
11 . A communicating apparatus according to claim 9 , wherein when the detecting device detects the plurality of managing apparatuses operating in the setting mode, the notifying device performs the notification according to the wireless communication parameters which are managed by the plurality of managing apparatuses operating in the setting mode.
12 . A communicating apparatus according to claim 9 , further comprising:
an additional detecting device that detects that the managing apparatus operating in the setting mode has finished the setting mode; and
a finishing device that finishes the setting mode of the communicating apparatus based on the detection by the additional detecting device.
13 . A communicating apparatus according to claim 9 , further comprising:
an additional detecting device that detects that the managing apparatus operating in the setting mode has finished the setting mode; and
a displaying device that displays a message for urging a user to reset the setting mode of the communication parameters according to the detection by the additional detecting device.
14 . A communicating apparatus according to claim 13 , wherein if the setting mode of the communication parameters is set again, the communication apparatus executes a process for receiving the wireless communication parameters from one of the plurality of managing apparatuses operating in the setting mode which has been detected first.
15 . A communicating apparatus according to claim 10 , further comprising
a selecting device that selects the managing apparatus for performing a process for receiving the wireless communication parameters based on a receiving state of the signal from the base station when the detecting device detects the plurality of managing apparatuses operating in the setting mode.
16 . A communicating apparatus according to claim 10 , further comprising
a deciding device that, when the detecting device detects the plurality of managing apparatuses operating in the setting mode, decides whether or not the managing apparatus for executing a process for receiving the wireless communication parameters is to be selected based on a receiving state of the signal from the base station, and
wherein the notifying device performs the notification according to the decision by the deciding device.
17 . A communicating apparatus according to claim 15 , further comprising
a transmitting device that transmits information for displaying a message to make the managing apparatus selected by the selecting device correspond to the communicating apparatus to the managing apparatus selected by the selecting device.
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23 . A method of sharing wireless communication parameters comprising at least one of an encrypting system, an encryption key, an authenticating system and an authentication key, wherein the wireless communication parameters are shared between communicating apparatuses, the method comprising:
detecting, at a first communicating apparatus, one or more other communicating apparatuses operating in a setting mode for sharing the wireless communication parameters between the communicating apparatuses, while the first communicating apparatus is operating in the setting mode;
sending, at the first communicating apparatus, a notification of overlap onto a network, in accordance with a number of detected communicating apparatuses operating in the setting mode.
24 . A method according to claim 23 , further comprising stopping, at the first communicating apparatus, a process of the setting mode after sending the notification of overlap.
25 . A method according to claim 23 , further comprising stopping, at the other communicating apparatus receiving the notification of overlap, a process of the setting mode.
26 . A method according to claim 23 , wherein the sending sends, at the first communicating apparatus, the notification of overlap onto the network, when a plurality of base stations that are operating in the setting mode exist.
27 . A method according to claim 23 , wherein the first communication apparatus is a managing apparatus for managing the wireless communication parameters.
28 . A communicating apparatus comprising:
a detecting device that detects one or more other communicating apparatuses operating in a setting mode for sharing wireless communication parameters between communicating apparatus, while the communicating apparatus is operating in the setting mode, wherein the wireless communication parameters comprise at least one of an encrypting system, an encryption key, an authenticating system and an authentication key; and
a sending device that sends a notification of overlap onto a network, in accordance with a number of the other communicating apparatuses operating in the setting mode.
29 . A communicating apparatus according to claim 28 , further comprising a stopping device that stops a process of the setting mode after the sending device sends the notification of overlap.
30 . A communicating apparatus according to claim 28 , wherein the sending device sends the notification of overlap onto the network, when a plurality of base stations that are operating in the setting mode exist.
31 . A communicating apparatus according to claim 28 , wherein the communicating apparatus is a managing apparatus for managing communication parameters.
32 . A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing a computer program for causing a computer to execute the method according to claim 23 .