PROCESSING METHOD FOR SETTING COMMUNICATION PARAMETERS, COMMUNICATION DEVICE, CONTROL METHOD AND PROGRAMME Russian patent published in 2011 - IPC H04L12/28 

FIELD: information technology.

SUBSTANCE: device includes the following: apparatus for identifying functioning of another communication device with respect to processing for setting communication parameters when the communication device itself is a candidate which provides the device with communication parameters; apparatus which sets functioning of the communication device itself as a reception device for communication parameters after detecting the device which is confirmed as a device providing communication parameters before a given time expires; and a device which, if the setting apparatus sets functioning as a reception device, performs, as the reception device for communication parameters, processing for setting communication parameters together with the providing device. Communication parameters include one of the following: an encryption scheme, an encryption key, an authentication scheme and an authentication key, and the reception device receives communication parameters from the providing device by performing a procedure for setting communication parameters together with the providing device.

EFFECT: possibility of unique determination of the direction of transmitting communication parameters when the role of the reception device is not predertermined.

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